by Paul Gallico

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952.

First American edition, first printing.

Jacket art and internal illustrations by Reisie Lonette.

Pages uniformly tanning, as usual, else fine, in full terra-cotta cloth with yellow spine lettering; in a near fine dust jacket which is slightly age-toned to the spine panel; original printed $1.50 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Italian orphan Pepino adores Violetta, his "dust-colored little donkey with the Mona Lisa smile." When Violetta falls ill, Pepino sets out for the Basilica of Saint Francis to ask the patron saint of animals to save his beloved friend.

Filmed as "Never Take No As An Answer."

Small octavo. [48] pages.

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