1952. First Edition. 190 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by Michael Hansom. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. 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. Gilt lettering to spine is heavily dulled.