1946. Reprinted. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations and colour frontispiece by Howard Leigh and Alfred Sindall. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Dedication 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. Book has slight forward lean.