1940. No edition remarks. 348 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Colour illustration plates. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Extensive pen scribbles throughout. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering is strongly dulled. Some additional moderate marks and staining.