1945. First Edition Thus. 125 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine. Black and white frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Crinkling to pages at gutters. Front endpaper has been trimmed off. Previous owner's inscription to a front free endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Occasional foxing. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges causing discolouration. Book has a slight forward lean. Boards are bowed.