London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1949. Yellow cloth lettered in red. Tanning to the top quarter inch of the spine; yellowing to page edges; thin covers a bit bowed; ink name to front free endpaper; VG tight and unworn copy otherwise. The dust jacket (art by Bip Pares) has chips to spine tips; splits to spine folds and horizontally across spine are internally repaired; chip about half an inch deep across half the front panel at top; just fair.; Octavo