1948. 2nd Printing. 345 pages. No dust jacket. Black paper covered boards with green cloth to spine. Black and white and colour illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper and rear of frontispiece. Water staining to text block edges. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water staining to front board.