1947. Uniform edition. 264 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some moderate marks and staining to surfaces. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly rubbed and dulled.