First edition, first impression. 62pp, colour plate frontispiece and further monochrome line drawings in text. Red cloth-covered boards, black lettering to spine. 12mo. Cloth is a little rounded at corners and spine ends, very slightly worn. A suggestion of faint spotting on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original pictorial dust wrapper, bumped on edges with a circa 2 inch closed tear from upper edge, slight toning on verso, price clipped. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style film wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
Enid Blyton's classic retelling of the story of the Prodigal Son from the Old Testament for younger readers.
