256pp. Colour frontispiece. Grey cloth-covered boards, very slightly sunned at edges and corners gently rounded. 8vo. Mild tanning to endpapers and very light spotting on text block edges. Otherwise internally bright, crisp, clean. No inscriptions or marks. The dust jacket is chapped on upped and lower edges with slight loss at head and heel of spine. Now protected in easily removable archival quality mylar. A lovely copy of this now hard to find full-bodied children's adventure story.