1950. No edition remarks. 273 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to rear hinge with netting exposed. Binding slightly loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional mild marks and staining. Boards are slightly bowed.