1950. First Edition. 494 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Binding remains firm.Heavy tanning to pages throughout. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Paper residue to spine edge of front board. Water staining to rear board.