1951. First Edition. 255 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth with a colour illustrated frontis and black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have visible sunning and rubbing with noticeable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier sunning to spine. Clipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. Areas of loss to spine and splitting to joints. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and heavy foxing to interior.