1950. New illustrated edition. 219 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Colour illustration plates . Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate 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. Book has slight forward lean.