1947. No edition remarks. 210 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Purple cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates. Torn holes in several pages in middle of textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. A cut and a hole in middle of spine.