260th thousand. 927 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt to red spine. Book has a slight smoky odour. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Cracking to rear hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. 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. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.