First Edition, First Printing. Very good plus in original pictorial cloth, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Inscribed by Bemelmans with a drawing of Noodle and signed by Munro Leaf with a smiling head. Quite rare thus. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions of drawings by Ludwig Bemelmans. Previous ownership signature on front free endpaper. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. A lovely copy of this Munro Leaf classic.