1960. First Edition. 51 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown illustrated paper covered boards with lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Copyright date. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear and pen marks to flaps, spine and panels.
Published under the name E. L. Grant Watson, Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson was a writer and biologist. Besides some 40 books he wrote a lot of essays and short stories.
He was educated at Bedales School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned a B.A. in 1909. Before his marriage in 1919, he travelled Australia, Fiji, Canada and Ceylon.
He was befriended with a multitude of writers and poets and his work spanned fiction, travel writing, nature essays and metaphysical and philosophical studies.