At the Back of the North Wind

First edition with E. H. Shepard's illustrations, 1956; publication page states First published in this edition 1956. Children's Illustrated Classics series, with eight colour plates and line drawings. Original patterned cloth and decorative endpapers. Light wear to the binding and light foxing to the preliminary leaves. School library ownership inscriptions to the front endpaper and jacket flap. Pictorial dust jacket with small chips and short tears at the edges, particularly at the head of the spine, and some fading to the spine. Front flap retains the printed price of 12s. 6d. Very Good in a Good dust jacket.