New Edition. 310 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Severe cracking to hinges and gutters causing boards to be loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription and sticker to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present to some pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.