1954. Fifth Impression. 213 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Book has a slight smoky odour. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is heavily dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces. Book has slight forward lean.