1953. Second Printing. 779 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Notable water stain to rear endpaper and to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Mild droplets to spine.