Bertie’s Escapade

30pp, with numerous line drawings in text.  Burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine.  Bright red endpapers.  12mo.  Cloth gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends.  Internally a hint of page toning else neat, clean and tight throughout.  In its original dust wrapper, very slightly bumped on extreme edges, a couple of minor indentations on upper panel.  Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.

This is a new edition of Bertie’s Escapade which was first published in 1949.  The text is reprinted from First Whisper of the Wind in the Willows.  It is charmingly illustrated by Ernest Shephard, who is well-known for his drawings on the late 1920s and 1930s when he illustrated A A Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh and Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows.  A delightful short tale.