1953. Second Printing. 327 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over black quarter bound cloth with blue boards. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has heavy surface wear, with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing to rear panel, spine ends, edges and corners. Notable tanning to spine.