1957. First Edition. 249 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth boards with lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece and illustrations. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning and foxing to free endpapers. Pen and pencil markings to front free endpaper and pastedown. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing and fraying to spine ends and corners. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.