1948. First Edition. 409 pages. Red and white dust jacket over light green cloth with black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and visible tanning to text block edges and ink stamp to rear pastedown. Boards have visible edge wear and rubbing with moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible rubbing to spine. Unclipped jacket with major edge wear, foxing and rubbing. Splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends with visible foxing and sunning to spine.