1948. First Edition. 137 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Contains black and white illustrations by Dennis Mallet. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Minor pencil marking to front free endpaper and page 96. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Binding throughout is slightly shaky. Mild brown water staining to text-block edges. Text is unaffected. Thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with minor splits and slight peeling. Moderate tanning to spine and board edges. Faint pink water droplet, and white ring mark to front board. Light water stained marking to all surfaces. Minor scuffed dark marking and small red marks to rear board. Book is forward leaning.