1948. Revised Edition. 296 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Hinges are heavily cracked with exposed netting. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Front free endpaper is missing. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Pen and ink stamp inscriptions to half title page. Top textblock edge dyed brown. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.