1946. No edition remarks. 272 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white and colour illustrations throughout by William Kay and Guy Huze. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper and pastedown. 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. Some additional mild marks and staining.