1952. First Edition. 328 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Pencil annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Dust jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Moderate tanning to interior flaps, panels and spine. Moderate tape repairs to interior spine and panels.