1958. First edition thus. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with silver titles to spine. From the Seagull Library series. With illustrated frontispiece. Pages are rather marked with heavy tanning and slight foxing, plus thumbing. A few dog-eared corners. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper and pastedown. Moderate gutter cracking. A few dog-eared corners. Boards have heavy edge wear, with intense bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are very crushed and frayed. Joints worn too with splits. Scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Water stains to front and rear. Spine is heavily sunned. Silver titles are bright. Moderate forward lean.