pasted paper title panel with vignette to front cover; illustrated end-papers; colour frontis. & 7 colour illustrations plus 8 b/w. illustrations, a good copy of the second edition of one of the best known and best loved of all Australian children's books, internally very clean but covers shaken with some wear to extremities & with marks to front & rear, some splitting to front & rear inside gutters & between pages 40/41 but no loose pages; the artwork in this increasingly scarce title is a delight,