Little, Brown, And Company, 1927. Hardcover with color illustrated plates. First edition in book format.

Thornton Burgess was an American conservationist and author of children's stories. He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man, after his newspaper column Bedtime Stories. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column.

This is a childhood book of M.L. Buchanan III, who served undercover with his wife in the CIA for 28 years on assignments throughout the globe. Prior to the CIA, he served as a U.S. Marine.

Good condition. Missing the frontispiece, p. 188 illustration, and p. 94 illustration is detached from the binding and half-torn. Five complete illustrations. Previous owner's name inside the front and back covers.