1949. Eighth printing. 577 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Heavy cracking to front and rear hinges with netting exposed. Binding loose. Some page corners folded. 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. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.