Avalon Press, Great Britain, 1949.  Hard cover, 117 pages.  Red cloth with gilt lettering on front, faded gilt lettering on spine.  Spine ends lightly bumped; corners bumped with a bit of fraying.  Binding sound with a slight lean; two small spots on fore-edge.  No jacket.  Interior clean and unmarked.  Illustrations by John Leech; 4 in seven-colour Lithography (small lower corner loss on one plate) and 4 woodcuts.  ‘I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.  May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.’ (from Preface [to the first edition])