1943. No edition remarks. No dust jacket. Pictorial yellow cloth covered boards. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout by Clarke Hutton. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. A page corner folded. All pages slightly wavy. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces moderately tanned. Some additional mild marks and dust staining. Boards are slightly bowed. Small blue mark to rear.