1950. This Country Book Club Edition. 324 pages. Illustrative jacket over beige cloth. Contains black and white and colour illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Clipping to front free endpaper. Visible creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Bleaching to spine ends. Textblock is slightly shaky. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Some tanning to spine. Brown marks to front panel. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.