1st Edition 1936. Henry Williamson's Retained Copy. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. First edition with these illustrations. Sixteen colour plates, fifty black-and-white chapter headings and end-pieces, endpapers and the dust wrapper designed by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Original mauve silk lettered in silver with silver salmon decoration on spine. Top edge silver. This edition, which is much scarcer than the first, was never reprinted. The book is very good and bright. Spine unevenly faded. Contents good. The wrapper is very good with small loss to spine tips. Marking to wrapper rear. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked,.Spine wrappers creased. Includes a spare wrapper that has loss.