1947. First Edition. 215 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout by Frederick Cockerton. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some page corners folded. Dedication 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 marks and staining. Boards are slightly bowed.