1948. First Edition Thus. 269 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges. Minor wear marks to boards.