Hardcover with very minor edgewear to dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt rabbit in centered black box, title on spine. Frontispiece is b/w plate, signature of Chase on title page. Original introduction by author and original b/w illustrations by Arthur Burdette Frost. Small tic marks on initial story chapters and pastedown is showing coloring from aging glue. Binding is bright and tight with 875 pages including Glossary and abundant b/w illustratrations. Vintage bookshop stamp on rear endpage.  A classic of southern plantation stories.