1949. First Edition. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographs and illustration plates. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm, but half-title page and frontispiece detaching. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper, heavy inscriptions on rear. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some wrinkles in cloth. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.