1953. First Edition. 214 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Heavy cracking to hinges with exposed netting. Binding loose. 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. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.