London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1949. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition thus. Wrapper price-clipped, neat name on endpaper; discreet bookseller's label on endpaper [Queensland Book Depot, Brisbane]; lower, outer, corner of front board lightly bumped; else a lovely fresh copy, in a bright dust-wrapper that is lightly chipped and worn at edges and corners. Berties' Escapade is reprinted from First Whisper of the Wind in the Willows, but with illustrations by Shepard.