No edition remarks. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards with cloth spine. Colour plates and black and white illustrations throughout by Kathleen Nixon, Horace Knowles and Lola Onslow. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters and hinges with exposed netting. Binding loose. Many illustrations coloured in. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. Some moderate marks and staining to surfaces. Some pencil marks on front. Book has slight forward lean.