1955. First Edition. 296 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and illustrated plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Noticeable foxing and tanning to text block edges and binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and noticeable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and minor sunning to spine. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and splitting to joints.