UTTLEY, Alison (author). Margaret TEMPEST (illustrator). Moldy Warp the Mole. London; Collins. 1940

Square 8vo.; original slate grey boards with onlaid pictorial roundel to upper cover, pictorial endpapers; pp. [vi], 7-87 + [i]; with text in blue and full-colour plates in abundance; a lovely copy with tiny wear to spine ends, internally fresh with a neat contemporary ink inscription, dated 1940, to front blank.

First edition.  A very  elusive wartime title.  Published without a pictorial wrapper but in a glassine jacket which, as usual, does not survive here.