1949. Third impression. 448 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout and colour frontispiece by W.A. Burton and A.R. Harrison. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to hinges with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned.