1953. First edition thus. 381 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With illustrated frontispiece. Introduction by Rosaline Masson and Patrick Braybrooke. Pages are water stained and warped to lower margins, but the text is unaffected. Otherwise, pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. A few dog-eared corners. Boards have heavy, mottled water stains to front and rear. Otherwise, Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Mottled and dusty overall. Spine is noticeably sunned. Gilt is bright.