In coarse-textured linen fabric-covered boards. With colorful, unattributed frontis illustration. Volume in damaged but functional slipcase (one seam has started to separate). Pages clean and bright. Pasted-on titling information on spine has a small tear which has been re-glued to spine by bookseller. The author, a successful novelist and writer of children's books, was also instrumental in establishing Montessori schools in the US. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 485 pages