1945. Fourth Printing. 368 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth with colour illustrated plates throughout. Authors signature to front endpaper. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Heavier tanning to text block edges and binding is loose. Boards have heavy rubbing and bleach spotting. Notable bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Distinctive sunning to spine.