Dorling Kindersley, the present
hardback publishers. I am grateful
to them, and hope that this new
edition* of my very first book,
published thirty-eight years ago,
may prosper. I am only sorry that
John Lehmann did not live to see
it. He died in April 1987, aged 79.
Although it now looks so very
different, it is still basically the
little book he so adventurously
published in 1950.
February 1988 E.D.