PETER'S VOYAGE [Lillebrors Segelfärd]

New York: Alfred Knopf, 1931. Very good in very good jacket.. First US edition of the classic Swedish picture book, in which Peter and Teddy Bear set out for adventures in a little boat. Elsa Beskow was a Swedish author and illustrator, beloved for her stories of a group of maiden aunts. Her charming characters adorn a stop on the Stockholm subway, as well as a variety of modern houseware. 10'' x 9.25''. Original cream cloth spine with color pictorial paper boards. In original peach dust jacket. Illustrated in color (cw: some caricatured imagery). [14] pages. Offsetting to endpapers. Boards moderately foxed. Jacket well intact with only light soil.