Third impression. 408 pages. No dust jacket. Red embossed cloth with gilt titles to spine. Two columns of text per page. Pages are rather marked with pronounced tanning and foxing, plus thumbing. Some intense foxing and staining. Heavy gutter cracking with exposed netting. A few loose pages. Many dog-eared corners. Boards have heavy edge wear, with intense bumping and fraying and loss to corners, while spine ends are very crushed and frayed. Joints worn too with slight splits. Highly scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Gilt is dulled and worn.