1947. First Edition. 147 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Signed with dedication from the author on front free endpaper. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled. Boards are slightly bowed.