1953. First Edition. 336 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Flat signed by author to frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.