1945. Third Edition. 250 pages. Red cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and black and white illustrations throughout. Book plate to front endpaper. Comes with half a dust jacket. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Only the rear of the dust jacket. Has heavy edge wear and tears to spine, corners and edges with noticeable foxing to interior.