Boston: Ariel Books. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper, as issued. 80 [2] pages. Illustrated with 12 full-page coloured plates. Original blue cloth, gilt with mounted illustration to front board. Quarto. Signed and dated [1989] by Allsburg on the first leaf beneath a printed vignette of swans. First edition. First issue. [The first printing was issued without a dust-wrapper.] A fine copy.