The House on East 88th Street.

WABER, Bernard.

Item Number: 133318

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.

Later printing of this beloved classic work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by author opposite the title page, “For Caitlin Bernard Waber.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

The book is the first in the Lyle the Crocodile series. The story is about a family named the Primms who move into an old Victorian brownstone, only to find a performing crocodile named Lyle living in the bathtub. At first they are horrified, but they learn to love him and accept him into their family.