1944. First Edition. 208 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Minor cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Dust jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Moderate tanning and wear marks to jacket. Jacket is in removable plastic cover.