1949. First Edition. 397 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by William Reeves. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. 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. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Book has strong forward lean.