1945. First Edition. 204 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with darkened gilt lettering to spine. Front free endpaper is missing. Pages are fairly heavily tanned with moderate foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Former owner's inscription and slight bubbling to paste-downs, with a few small nicks and rub marks along text block edge. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with mild bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Boards are notably bowed. Mottling to front and rear boards.