1950. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Dark red cloth with a photographic black and white frontis. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper and binding is loose. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting and visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and notable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and rubbing to spine.