No Edition Remarks. 172 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations. Colour frontispiece by Stanley Cursiter. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers. 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 dulled but remains brighter on front. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.