1955. First Edition. 318 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and black and white illustrated plates throughout. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper and heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have major bleach spotting and visible bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier sunning to spine. Splitting to joints.