152pp. With 14 full-page drawings. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Cocked. Text block edges just starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, has shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped. 12mo. Facts and fancies behind the world's oddest creatures, some surviving today, some buried in legend.