1947. First Edition. 502 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Some page corners folded. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional moderate marks and staining. Boards are slightly bowed.