1946. Fourth printing. 278 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper and pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some moderate marks and staining to surfaces. Boards are slightly bowed.