1st U.K.edition, a very good book indeed, full page coloured illustrations throughout with incorporated text. With a scarce but rather worn dust jacket. An American Illustrator, Hurd illustrated over fifty books written by his wife, Edith Thacher Hurd as well as a children's book written by Gertrude Stein, The World Is Round. He is famed for his collaboration with Margaret Wise Brown, illustrating, amongst others, what is regarded in North America as a classic of chidren's literature 'Goodnight Moon'