Originally printed in 1954 it like the other volumes are slighlty dated.
However saying that, this book is full of wonderful ideas that could easly modernized to suit todays audiences.
If you entertain children then you should get this book (together with the other volumes) it is worth a lot more than the $9.00 asked.
You can tell by the way that this book is written that Francis Ireland knows what she is talking about, there are no pipe dreams here.