Illustrated by Pauline Baynes Publication: London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951. Description: [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp. With a colour frontispiece and other illustrations throughout by Pauline Baynes.
SIGNED by Baynes in black ink to title page. Publisher's blue cloth, with silver titles to spine, and illustrated map front endpapers. Ownership inscription in blue ink to front endpaper, else internally bright and clean, with minor toning to textblock top edge. Sunning to spine, with some minor bumping and marking to boards. Subject: Literature, Signed & Inscribed, Illustrated & Plate Books, Children's Books.
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