1956. No edition remarks. 479 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Dedication to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned, sunned and rubbed, particularly spine. Boards are slightly bowed.