NICHOLS, Beverley; Isobel and John MORTON-SALE [Illus.] ~ The Tree that Sat Down.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Jonathan Cape, London: 1945

8vo., green cloth with black peacock device to upper cover; lettered in silver to backstrip with publisher's device to foot; upper edge stained green; in the unclipped pictorial dustwrapper (8s. 6d. net) printed in green, brown, red and white, with illustrations by the Morton-Sales; decorative endpapers; coloured frontis on glossy paper, and numerous other black and white illustrations throughout text; THE BOOK an excellent copy, slightly darkened to spine and pushed to tips; previous ownership ink inscription to front free endpaper; else near-fine; THE WRAPPER also near-fine, a couple of creases to edges and folds. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First UK edition, first printing. Scarce in this condition.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Near Fine