1951. First Edition. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white frontispiece. Newspaper cuttings affixed at front. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled. Book has slight forward lean.