1957. First Edition. 190 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour illustration plates by Stead. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. A previous owner's name stamp to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional moderate marks and staining. Boards are slightly bowed. Small pieces of old jacket stuck to front.