BANNER, Angela [Angela Mary MADDISON] (author). Bryan WARD (illustrator). Ant and Bee and the ABC. London Edmund Ward (Publishers) Ltd. 1966

Landscape small 8vo. (127 x 100mm); publisher’s red linen-textured pictorial boards, in repeat dustwrapper, printed inner upper cover; pp. [ii], 5-94; illustrated throughout in full colour; a near fine copy with small rubbing to spine ends and forecorner tips; internally fine, without inscription, in a good and pleasing, unclipped dustwrapper (6s) with slight fading to spine, rubbing to edges, some lateral creasing to the same, and a series of 5 small numbers in biro to inner upper flap, with small nicking and wear to spine ends and forecorner tips.

First edition, first printing, with “Book 0 The first Ant And Bee book” to upper cover, as stated, although this title was actually issued considerably later in the series.