1950. First Edition. 514 pages. Grey dust jacket over dark blue cloth with black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and heavier tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and light bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible rubbing to spine. Unclipped jacket with visible sunning, foxing and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Heavier sunning to spine with tear and rubbing to spine as well.