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First edition, first impression (Geoffrey Bles Ltd, 1953). Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Publisher's original dark blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Faint off-setting to endpapers with a hint of minor spotting to fore-edge and a touch of very mild discolouration to boards; small Foyles sticker to bottom corner of front paste-down; contents nice and clean and free from inscriptions.… Read more

First edition, first impression (Geoffrey Bles Ltd, 1952). Illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Publisher's original light blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Some fading to spine with light spotting to rear endpaper and paste-down and a few very faint and isolated spots to preliminaries, contents nice and clean otherwise and free from names and inscriptions. Very good. The original and… Read more