New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First edition, first printing with 1939 date to title-page and with twelve little girls in "they broke their bread" illustration. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards, spine ends with very light rubbing, rear board with faint vertical line, endpapers lightly soiled, contemporary gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper; in the original matching pictorial dust-jacket, lightly worn to extremities and with a two-inch closed tear at top edge where front panel meets spine, just touching the "M", tiny chips to spine ends.