First edition, first impression. 214pp, with nine plate illustrations. Burnt ochre cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. A clean ex-lending library with usual library markings, including on the rear endpapers. Cloth a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, label over spine. Internally neat. clean, bright and tight barring library markings.
Peter Crowcroft's ground-breaking study of on the behaviour of mice, based on his unusual 1950q experiment observing the rise of Bill, a mouse, and his 'stark savagery...with which he hurled himself' upon other mice. The book documents Bill's tyrannical behaviour towards other mice. A very hard to find title.
