1953. First Edition. 241 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth with black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have mild rubbing and light bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and book is forward leaning. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and splitting to joints. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and heavy sunning to interior.