London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1954. 157 pages. Illustrated with six full-page plates. Original green cloth lettered in blue; original pictorial dust-wrapper (not price-clipped). Octavo. First edition. Wrapper lightly soiled on rear panel, and a little worn at head & heel of spine and corners; some light foxing to the endpapers and the turnover flaps of the jacket; else a very good copy, rarely found in dust-wrapper. The first title in the series, illustrated by the author’s son.