New York: The Junior Literary Guild/Charles Scribner's Sons, (1947). First edition thus. Illustrated by the author. 4to. Unpaginated. Red cloth-covered boards, stamped in light grey; white endpapers, unevenly and slightly darkened; "A" on copyright page; in illustrated dust-jacket, with a few very small chips and closed tears, faint toning to extremities. Almost near-fine.