1955. Reprinted. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Front board corner heavily creased. All surfaces tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.