1948. Reprint. 411 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages are visibly tanned with minor foxing throughout. Heavier tanning and foxing to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscription and pencil mark to front free endpaper. Red pen underlining, annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Water stain to text-block top edge. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Notable staining and minor scratching to boards and spine with small crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened.