1948. Reprinted. 646 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Pictorial endpapers. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is heavily dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.