1948. First Edition. 236 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.