8vo.; original olive green cloth lettered gilt to spine, in pictorial dustwrapper with wrap-around design by Gillian Platt; pp. 302; with line illustrations by Jacqueline Tettmar; a fine copy without ownership marks or inscriptions preserved in an all-but-fine fine, unclipped dustwrapper (£4.95); scarce. First complete edition, first printing of this well-loved work. This is the first of eight books in the Farthing Wood series. It was awarded the Arts Council National Book Award for Children’s Literature in 1980. An animated TV series consisting of 39 episodes was broadcast between 1993 and 1995.