1953. Second Printing. 890 pages. Blue dust jacket over dark blue cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges. Tears to rear endpaper and rear hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Binding is also loose. Boards have minor rubbing and visible bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends as well. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and splitting to joints. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and rubbing. Tape and heavy foxing to interior as well.