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Condizione: Fair. 1923. First Edition. 79 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with black lettering. Front endpaper missing. Colour frontispiece with B&W illustrations throughout, which have been coloured in. Both hinges cracked with netting visible, thus the boards are slack. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Notable scuffing and soiling to boards. Book has a backward lean.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by Alan Wright & Anne Anderson. (illustratore). 1st Edition. 80pp. (last blank). 16cm. Colour frontispiece. 4 full page line illustrations in the text. Decorated hard cover. old pencil name erased from front end paper. Small piece lacking from front free end paper. Light foxing, most confined to early pages. (Muir 6176).

Fourth Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Boards lightly stained. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 79 p. : 1 col. ill. ; 17 cm. Series: The Oxford books for children. Subjects: English fiction; Children's literature; Juvenile fiction. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. A charming early 20th century children's or juvenile adventure tale. The story itself fits the classic period style: imaginative, moral-tinged, lightly fantastical, and designed for young readers in the 1920s. The pictorial cover remains bright and attractive. An Attendance Certificate is pasted to the front cover, dated 1925. A name is printed on the front end page (see scan). A very small amount of foxing, overall this book is in remarkable condition for its age.

Fourth Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Boards lightly stained. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 79 p. : 1 col. ill. ; 17 cm. Series: The Oxford books for children. Subjects: English fiction; Children's literature; Juvenile fiction. 1 Kg.