THE STORY ABOUT PING

by Marjorie Flack, Kurt Wiese

$1,800 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

New York: Viking, 1933. First printing. First edition, in the scarce original dust jacket, about a little Chinese duckling who lives on a houseboat in Peking. Fine in very good plus jacket. Item #10436 The prolific Wiese, runner-up for two Caldecott medals and winner of a Newbery, illustrator of Walter Brooks's Freddy the Pig books and Felix Salten's BAMBI, was at his best here: Flack's

• Printing: first

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