8vo. Illustrated frontispiece, printer’s device on title-page, numerous illustrations. (Very light occasional toning.) Original pictorial tan buckram stamped in green and pink, mint decorated endsheets (some light fading); in unclipped dust jacket (overall toning, a few short tears repaired verso with some minor work in facsimile affecting a few letters). 

FIRST EDITION, later issue, with code-numbers "10-5" and letters "I-U" on verso of title. In FIRST STATE DUST JACKET with flap priced $2.00. White’s first children’s book, for which received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970.