1955. First Edition. 244 pages. No dust jacket. Red 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. Heavier tanning and foxing to half title page and free endpaper. Pen markings to front pastedown. Front free endpaper is missing. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends and corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Book has a slight forward lean.