1953. First Edition. 235 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plates throughout. Book plate to half title page. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Pen inscriptions to half title page. Boards have major rubbing and visible sunning. Heavy bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Distinctive sunning to spine.