No Edition Remarks. 488 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Colour frontispiece & Black and white illustrative plates by Max Cowper. Binding loose at centre where large crack is. Pages 113-128 are coming loose. Heavy crinkling to pages at gutters. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Occasional foxing. Minor dog eared corners. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends with splits. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a slight forward lean.