1943. No edition remarks. 490 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations. Black and white frontispiece. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Small tear to frontispiece. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some moderate marks and staining to surfaces.