1950. First Edition, Fourth Impression. 240 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and plates are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Light scuffing and water staining to text-block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Moderate foxing and tanning to spine and edges. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Splits to joints and heavy loss to spine, with jacket almost split into two pieces. Some brown water staining to all surfaces.