First Edition, Fourth Printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Spier on the title page. Very rare signed. Winner of the 1978 Caldecott Medal (medal stamped on cover). Illustrated by Spier. Spier's translation of the seventeenth-century Dutch poem by Jacobus Revius is accompanied by beautiful, softly hued watercolors depicting the biblical story with reverence, humor and delight; Color Illustrations; [44] pages. A beautiful telling of this biblical story.