1954. First Edition Thus. 279 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and foxing to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Heavier tanning to free endpaper and half title page. Front free endpaper is missing. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends and corners. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Book has a slight forward lean.