1943. Third Printing. 612 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper and pastedown and also small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and heavy fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.