1950. First Edition. 127 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Contains black and white in-text illustrations. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Clipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Dark rubbing and marking to surfaces, with scuffing to edges. Mild tanning to spine and edges.