Notes  Second Edition, Reprinted. Signed by Author. Demy 8vo. Pp. viii, 413, with a fold-out map to rear by Marilyn Hemmett. Publisher's original brown cloth, gilt embossed lettering to spine and small vignette to the front board, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket, showing price of £3.50 net. Winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal and The Guardian Award for Children's Fiction. Initially turned down by all the major publishing houses, when finally issued by Rex Collings in 1972 sales soared above 100,000 in the first year alone. Exceptional copy. Unread. Children's Modern Firsts [p16].