London: Cresset Press, 1952. Octavo, dark green cloth. Pp (256). Dark blue top page edges. Very light endpaper yellowing at inner magins, else fine, no owner names. Near fine jacket has slight dust soiling to rear panel, tiny corner chip at foot of spine. Flap price intact. The first novel in a teratology about the Anglo-Australian Langton family. Collectively, his greatest achievement.