1949. First Edition. 180 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by R.M. Lander. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. 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 to spine is heavily dulled.