Second Edition. 487 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper and newspaper cutting affixed. Previous owner's name label to front pastedown. 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. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.