1950. First Edition. 260 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Colour pictorial frontispiece and plates. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and plates with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.