No Edition Stated. 136 pages. No dust jacket. Browned green boards with red lettering. Illustrated by Charles Pears, T H Robinson. Rectangular paper illustration (of Mouse talking to other animals) to front board. Tales for the Children series. Contains 3 colour plates and many B&W illustrations, some of which have been coloured in with crayons. Front endpaper missing. Previous owner's inscription to rear of frontispiece. Notable tanning to pages throughout. Some gutter cracking. Small tears to edges of p29. Some finger smudging to pages. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting and chipping to spine ends and corners. Both joints are cracked and worn thus the netting is slightly visible. Notable tanning to spine and board edges, with scuffing and marking across the boards. Faint ring mark to illustration on front. Book has a slight forward lean.