1953. First Edition. 217 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. 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 tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.