1953. First Edition. 528 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and front hinge is cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible rubbing to spine.