1949. Reprinted. 288 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth covered boards. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. 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. Some additional moderate marks and staining.