1946. Reprinted, Youth Edition. 181 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with silver gilt. Black and white illustrations by Robert Gibbings. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Book has slight forward lean.