1956. No Edition Remarks. 300 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white frontispiece. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavy cracking to front and rear hinges with netting exposed. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional heavy marks and staining to surfaces.