1956. No Edition Remarks. 348 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates throughout. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Cracking to front 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.