1947. Reprinted. 464 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with silver gilt. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm, but front free endpaper missing. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.