1950. First Edition. 640 pages. Red dust jacket over red cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and visible ink marks and tanning to text block edges. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have mild rubbing and noticeable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket with major edge wear and visible rubbing. Splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Tape and heavier foxing and sunning to interior.