1948. First Edition. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying and tearing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.