1958. Second Impression. 121 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over decorative cloth. Contains black and white illustrations and frontispiece by Lilian Buchanan. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. More pronounced foxing to endpapers, pastedowns and text block edges. Thumb-marking present throughout. Endpapers and pastedowns are mapped as 'The Island.' Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Book has a slight forward lean. Marked tanning to head and tail of spine and edges with some crushing to ends. The spine is creased. Slight liquid staining to front and rear boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Panels to dust jacket have noticeable edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Tanning and liquid staining to reverse of jacket.