Mr. Tootleoo and Co. by DARWIN, Bernard and Elinor - 1935

London: Faber & Faber, 1935. Spine split and chipped, boards rubbed, shaken, gutters cracked, foxed throughout, mug stains to front endpapers. Unfortunately there are child scribbles throughout, mainly to the margins of the text pages, endpapers and prelims, the illustrations remain clean and bright on the whole, as do the rhymes. Please enquire for photos.. Hard. Poor. 12mo Landscape.

London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Faber & Faber Ltd., 1935. Oblong small quarto, [48] pages (first two and last one blank) with a pictorial title page, 20 full-page plates, and a small illustration on the second-last page; all illustrations are in colour. Colour-pictorial papered boards a little rubbed at the extremities; an excellent copy (internally fine). A delightful children's book in verse by Bernard Darwin, better known for his writings on golf (and for being a grandson of the more famous Charles); the charming colour lithographs are by his wife Elinor.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd,, 1935. First edition, first printing. This is the final Mr. Tootleoo book. Bernard Darwin (1876–1961) was the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He and his wife collaborated on their children's books, with Bernard providing the text, and Elinor the illustrations. Oblong quarto. Original illustrated boards, titles to front cover in red. With dust jacket. With 20 full-page coloured illustrations and 2 vignettes by Elinor Darwin. Edges of book lightly rubbed, edges of dust jacket also lightly rubbed and nicked.