1947. No edition remarks. 213 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are slightly bowed.