SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR: Green cloth covered book with some wear and fading to the edges.  The dust jacket is worn and part of the spine area is missing.  The dust jacket is covered with plastic and in parts has been repaired with sellotape.  Inside the book is clean, bright and tightly bound.  The dust jacket is illustrated by Fritz Wegner a prolific Austrian book illustrator.  There is a family tree at the start of the book and names have been added to it in pencil.  The book was published by Macmillan in 1956.