[attractive copy, tight and clean except for some spotting/foxing on the top edge and fore-edge; the jacket shows some mild soiling, with very slight chipping near the top of the spine, and some spotting at the top edge of both flaps]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in the year of publication; inscription is to a family, one of whose members (possibly a child) has written the first names of the family's six members in bright pink ink below the author's inscription. The author's first book for children, about a couple of brothers who run away from home "in search of a vaguely imagined ideal world with mor time for nature and love and feeling." Tom Sawyer and Holden Caulfield are invoked by the jacket-blurb writer. Signed by Author