1949. First Edition. 318 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with silver lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout and colour illustrative frontispiece, all by Pat Marriott. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Minor pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some bumping of corners, tanning and marking. Spine crushed top and bottom. Silver lettering is dulled. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some large tears, creasing and chipping. Front sheet detached at spine which is strongly tanned. Heavy thumb marking to outside edges.