1957. First Edition. 310 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Photograph stuck to reverse of frontispiece. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Top textblock edge dyed red. Minor water staining to top and fore edges textblock. Text is unaffected Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Mottling to edges of boards and spine. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Minor sunning to spine. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.