1954. No Edition Remarks. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece and illustrations. Foreword written by George Hirst. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with light tanning and foxing to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Boards are bowed.