1952. No Edition Remarks. 519 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Heavy cracking to gutter at rear. Textblock detaching from boards. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.