1956. No edition remarks. 434 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs. Colour frontispiece. 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 heavily dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has strong forward lean.