FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (24 x 19cm), pp.103; [1]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt device to upper, pictorial endpapers. Dust-jacket featuring a design by Rex Whistler adapted by Laurence Whistler, with printed price of 12/6 net to front flap. Illustrated. Internally clean, some light spotting to edges and endpapers. Slight bowing to boards. Dust-jacket toned and marked, some wear to extremities, some loss to spine ends and bottom right corner of front panel. Very good.