1953. First Edition. 244 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Signed with dedication from the author on front free endpaper. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled.