First Edition, First Printing. Inscribed by King on front free endpaper in year of publication. Scarce in dust jacket and signed. Charming, colorful book about a little Dutch boy in Holland and his pet duck. Fully illustrated with vibrant reproductions of bold color drawings, color borders; illustrated endpapers. Very good in original blue quarter-cloth over illustrated paper boards and very good pictorial dust jacket. Some wear to extremities; dust jacket worn and somewhat chipped and soiled. Small quarto, 8.5 x 10.25 in. A lovely, scarce copy of this children's classic.