1949. New edition. 240 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Colour frontispiece. Prize plate on front free endpaper. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. 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. Some additional marks and staining. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has slight forward lean.