1953. First Edition. 285 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth covered boards. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavy cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose with some pages at front detaching. Major pen and pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces. Book has slight forward lean.