1956. First Edition. 254 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis. Boots library rebind with associated stickers and markings to pages and boards. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and slight dog-eared pages throughout Pencil inscriptions to rear pastedown and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and edge wear with major bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible rubbing to spine.