1959. First Edition. 246 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece and illustrations. Flat signed by author to title page. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout.Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Book has a slight forward lean.