1947. First Edition. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Flat signed by the author to front endpaper. Pages have deckled edges. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book. Endpapers have strips of tanning caused by jacket, now absent. Faint creases to some pages. Boards have some edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and bumping and fraying to spine ends. Gilt is bright. Book has a slight forward lean.