1949. Reprinted. 326 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Stuart Tresilian. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.