1962. Second impression. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Flat signed by author to title page and with a Joan Sutherland signature affixed at front. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.