1953. Reprinted. 335 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over yellow and red cloth. Contains black and white in-text illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Light thumb-marking present. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Pen inscription to front inside flap and front panel. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Moderate scuffing overall. Some brown stained marking to surfaces.