The price clipped jacket is rubbed and has a series of short tears, with minor loss to the head of the spine; there is a neat ownership signature on the front end paper, from page 90 to page 100 the head's outer edge is creased, becoming quite nasty towards page 100. Despite its faults, it remains a clean and solid copy. ""Mary Berrisford (1912 - ? ] was a British writer of children's pony stories which are very similar to those of the Pullein-Thompson sisters, as well as other animal story and books on gardening.She was born in Staffordshire in 1912. She also wrote under the name Amanda Hope. She married Clifford Lewis with whom she wrote under the pseudonym Judith M. Berrisford"