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London: Ward Lock and Co., 1959. Publishers original dark blue cloth with silver diagonal pattern and lettering to front cover and spine. Dustwrapper: clipped, minor chipping to top and base of spine, small closed tear to top edge of back cover, rubbing to surfaces, now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscriptions. Frontis: b/w illustration. 184pp. full page b/w illustrations throughout text. Minor toning to page edges otherwise pages clean and bright in firm binding. When the struggling artist, Hubert Trevellyan inherits the dilapidated ancestral home, Pengareth Place and estate in Cornwall, he decides to summer with his somewhat large family in the tumbledown ruin. Their little, rich and pampered cousin decides to join them and together the venturesome but cheery gang are caught up in some astonishing adventures that bring riches and happiness in their wake. For the dilapidated ruins may be ghost ridden and rat infested, but hidden there, too, is a secret, a secret treasure, not the one they sought so eagerly, but nevertheless one that makes all the difference to a most delightful and deserving family.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.