1949. Reprinted. 156 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. Two-colour illustrations by Paule Beauvais. Presentation plate on front free endpaper. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Two illustrations at front with additional colouring in. Some marginalia. Some page corners folded. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional moderate marks and staining.