1953. First Edition. 318 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With illustrated frontispiece. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Slight marginal water stains to text block edges. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Gilt is bright. Spine is slightly sunned.