New York: Viking, 1974, stated 1st printing; grey pictorial cloth with little boy and the bird in a rough painted dark blue oval, in purple endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, 8.5x7.3; c 36 pp. Picture Book hardback. A lovely copy of this gentle book for young children, with pictures.....
Prague, Praze: B. Koči, 1916, 1st, title page and rear publication notes, red coth spine backed paper boards with pattern of small ovals enclosing birds, oval floral border around titles, endpaper pattern of coloured pine trees and hearts, litho. Czech language. Fischerová-Kvěchová's first book, published during the war when she.....
New York: Viking Press, 1964/1939, 1st US by this company (actually preceded by a Putnam 1940 publication); green cloth boards, green top edge, with chapter heads and full page illustrations, in pink jacket with little figures in greens and pink surr. Juvenile hardback. Penelope comes to the Thackers, home for.....