1946. Reprinted. 413 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with silver gilt. Black and white illustrations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Dedication to front free endpaper. Spine noticeably sunned. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.