1942. Twelfth impression. 222 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards.Black and white illustrations throughout by Robert Gibbings. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.