1948. No Edition Remarks. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece and plates. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Bright and clean pages and plates with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Heavier tanning and foxing to free endpapers. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Minor wear marks to boards.