1955. Second edition. 223 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations by C.H. Chapman. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Frontispiece and front free endpaper heavily creased. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Boards are slightly bowed.