THE STORY ABOUT PING by Marjorie Flack and Illustrated by Kurt Wiese

Published by Viking Press, New York, 1933. First Printing (three-line copyright on title page) in the First Printing dustjacket with coupon on rear flap and $1.00 price. Hardcover, black cloth spine over pictorial paper boards, 9" x 7", 32 unpaginated pages, beautiful color illustrations throughout, in original matching dustjacket. VERY GOOD Condition book: with a trace of shelfwear, and light edge and corner-tip wear, internally a penned 1933 Christmas inscription on the front pastedown, and a touch of age toning, overall a lovely copy, tight, bright and clean. In a GOOD PLUS un-clipped dustjacket that has some shelfwear, some age toning, a chip at the top of the spine, some edge and flap fold wear, pea size droplet stain to front panel, rear panel has a 1" closed edge tear, and a quarter and a dime size stain but remains solid and bright and is protecting the book well.

A 20th century children's literature classic about an adventurous Chinese duckling who lives on a houseboat on the Yangtze River in Peking. Adapted into a film in 1955.