1947. First Edition. 263 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece and illustrations. Moderate crinkling to paper at gutter. Pages and illustrations are heavily tanned and foxed with visible markings throughout. Binding throughout is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing and splits to spine ends and corners. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Boards are bowed.