1952. No edition remarks. 376 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Some page corners cut. 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.