Third edition. 295 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Dedication to front free endpaper. Newspaper cutting affixed to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled.