1942. 48 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards. Contains black and white, and colour illustrations. Contains colour illustrated plates. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and light marking overall. Book is slightly forward leaning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing to edges and heavy splits to joints.