1948. Seventeenth Impression. 237 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains ex-libris plate. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper and rear pastedown. Mild tearing to rear hinge. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.