Marjorie Flack

A first edition , first printing of The Story About Ping, by Marjorie Flack.

• Marjorie Flack (American).
• Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.
• New York: Viking, 1933.
• 32 pages.
• Original quarter black cloth, paper pictorial boards, in original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket.

First edition, in the scarce original dust jacket, about a little Chinese duckling who lives on a houseboat in Peking.

"Once upon a time there was a beautiful young duck named Ping."

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.