1956. Third Impression. 202 pages. Green photographic dust jacket over blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustrations, illustrative plates and photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Crinkling to pages at gutters. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Paper remnant to spine tail. Clipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy chips, tears and creasing mainly to spine. Tanning to spine and edges.