Abridged Edition. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Foulsham's Boy and Girl Fiction Library. Colour illustrated plates by C.A. Mold. Front free endpaper appears to have been removed. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Light thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning. Water staining to edges. Light sunning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Red water staining to edges. Loss to spine. Dark rubbed marking to surfaces.