Reprint. 352pp, with occasional black and white illustrations. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Maps on endpapers. 8vo. Cloth very slightly pushed at spine base else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust wrapper, slightly bumped and rubbed at extreme edges, a little shelf worn especially on rear panel.
The Sunday Times' list of 99 Best Children's Books described Ransome as a master story teller sympathetically in touch with real children and their interests.
