Description
First edition, first printing. Published by Collins in London, 1958. The first book in the series. Illustrated throughout by Peggy Fortnum. Original red cloth. Minor marks to the front board else cloth bright and clean. Occasional slight foxing otherwise pages very nice and clean. A very good (or better) book which is firmly bound and without inscriptions. In the scarce very good, very slightly nicked and rubbed dustwrapper which has slight foxing and a short closed tear to the front panel which has been neatly repaired to the reverse with archive tape and is correctly priced 8s. 6d. net. Scarce.