1953. First Edition. 238 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Sabine Baur. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name label to front free endpaper. 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. Boards are strongly bowed.