1954. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and visible tanning to text block edges. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting and binding is loose. Boards have heavy rubbing and visible sunning. Moderate bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Heavier rubbing to spine and book is forward leaning. Splitting to rear joint.