1948. Illustrated edition. 213 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by Harry Becker. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has slight forward lean.