1955. First Edition. 265 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor wear marks to boards.