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THE STORY ABOUT PING
by Flack, Marjorie; Wiese, Kurt
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Fine in very good plus jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 1933. First printing. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition, in the scarce original dust jacket, about a little Chinese duckling who lives on a houseboat in Peking. 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 THE STORY ABOUT PING is an animal tale that draws great power from the young reader's anxious identification with the daily life-and-death routine of an animal on the borders of the human world. As Barbara Bader writes, "This was one of the first instances in picturebooks proper of a story being written by one person to be pictured by another"; though the author was herself an able artist, "Marjorie Flack didn't know China, Kurt Wiese did, that was the genesis; the ramifications were many." Very scarce. 9'' x 6.75''. Original quarter black cloth, paper pictorial boards. In original unclipped ($1.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Wiese with wonderful color lithographs (cw: caricatured depictions of Chinese people). [32] pages. Book with slightest bit of edge rubbing; jacket with two small closed tears repaired on verso and slight rubbing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10436
- Title
- THE STORY ABOUT PING
- Author
- Flack, Marjorie; Wiese, Kurt
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in very good plus jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- 20th century,American,Picture Book
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Type Punch Matrix
Type Punch Matrix is a rare book firm founded by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy. TPM is a member firm of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and upholds their Code of Ethics.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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