1949. First Edition. 285 pages. Grey dust jacket over dark blue cloth with black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Heavy foxing to text block edges and binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and notable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket with major edge wear and visible rubbing. Heavy sunning to spine and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Splitting to joints.