1945. First Edition. 226 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and noticeable tanning to text block edges. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting and some pages are loose from binding. Boards have major rubbing and distinctive bumping to corners. Major crushing to spine ends and rubbing to spine. Splitting to joints as well.