1948. Third Edition. 467 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Minor tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and minor tanning to text block edges. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have visible rubbing and notable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier foxing and rubbing to spine. The book is forward leaning.