1949. Reprinted. 656 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white diagrams throughout. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have heavy 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.