1951. Reprinted. 168 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Humphrey Dakeyne. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces. Boards are slightly bowed.