No edition remarks. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour illustration plates by John Sutcliffe. Prize dedication on front free endpaper. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Picture on spine peeling. Some additional moderate marks and staining. Book has slight forward lean.