1934. No edition remarks. No dust jacket. Card hardback with purple cloth spine. Colour illustrations. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Tape repairs to page 'The Elephant Swam'. Pages are clipped to both corners to front. Lots of pages are dog earred. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Loss to edges of spine strip. Spine is heavily tanned. Book has forward lean. Pen marking to front.