1939. No edition remarks. 246 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Kurt Wiese and Erna Pinner. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.