True first British printing. No jacket. Large format. Illustrated by the author. Blue boards with gold lettering to spine are very good with numerous marks (mainly to front), patchy fading (including to spine), minor pushing/bumping to corners, the odd small bump/rub to edges and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/bumping) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages are a bit tanned. Neat gift inscription and date in pen to front end-paper. Occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.