A UK first edition, first impression. Original pictorial cloth with colour picture pasted to front cover, as issued. No wrapper. The book is square and very tight. The boards are clean and unfaded. the colour picture on the front board shows creasing at the top left hand corner. The corners and spine ends are gently rubbed. The pages are clean. The closed page edges are lightly foxed. There are no loose or dog-eared pages. The binding is solid and without cracked hinges. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. A nice copy in a protected wrapper.
