First edition, first printing. Unpaginated but circa 80pp. Quarter bound in red cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt lettering oh the spine. Pale green endpapers. 4to. Boards are faded and toned around margins, rubbed on edges and a little bumped and rubbed on corners and spine ends. Some toning on endpapers. In its original dust wrapper, worn, rubbed and bumped all round edges, heavily so at corners and spine ends, with some loss round spine head, shelf worn.
An unusually presented tale, told in photographs as much as words, of a young Swedish girl who follows the path of her favourite tree, on which she has carved 'Karina, with love', after it is felled to make a mast for a boat.
