1956. Reprinted. 194 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Colour frontispiece by Diana Stanley. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. 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. Boards are slightly bowed. Some additional marks and staining.