Beetle up the River by Peter Ewart
1953. First Edition. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by John T. Kenney. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.