1948. First Edition. 268 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with lettering. Black and white illustrated 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 to free endpapers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.