The Adventures of Prickly Porky

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. Hardcover. very good/missing. Harrison Cady. Very good book, missing dust jacket. Red tweed boards with black illustration on front, black print on spine. 14 full-page B&W line drawings, plus many smaller line drawings. End papers show many forest animals. Pages are clean and unmarked. Grosset & Dunlap hard cover, missing dust jacket; 1944 reprint edition, printing date not stated but 1950s; 192 pages. Illustrations by Harrison Cady. 12mo (5"" X 7.5"") 13th in the Bedtime Story-Books series. Printing dated thru binding style. A stranger from the North Woods has just arrived in the Green Forest causing a great stir among the woodland creatures who live there. They quickly discover that this odd fellow with the barbed spikes in his fur is the loyal and brave Prickly Porky the Porcupine. Not long after Prickly Porky arrives, a bit of early morning fun leads to a forest mystery that draws friends and foes alike into the investigation of an unknown headless, tailless, whirling creature seen only at sunrise on the hill by Prickly Porky's home.