1949. Ninth Impression. 272 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece and illustrations. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing and splits to spine ends. Lettering is clear. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and panel. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.