1959. Third Impression. 244 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Colour frontispiece. Illustrated by author. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces with some sunning, particularly spine. Gilt lettering is dulled.