1948. No Edition Remarks. 264 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front. Colour frontispiece. Volume 1. Binding remains firm. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. 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. Boards are bowed. Book has a slight forward lean.