1953. First Edition. 300 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations and plates. Clean pages, plates and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpaper and half title page due to dust jacket flaps. Front free endpaper is missing. Pencil markings to pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning to interior flaps, panels and spine. Minor wear marks to spine and panels.