1949. Reprinted. 240 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout by A.H. Watson. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some illustrations coloured-in. Front free endpaper stuck to pastedown. Previous owner's name to rear pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Boards are slightly bowed.