1953. Reprinted. 357 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. 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. Some additional moderate marks and staining. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has slight forward lean.