1942. First Edition Sixth Impression. 450 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Occasional thumb-marking present. Some pencil marking and scribbling to pages throughout, text remains readable. Some small tears and creasing to edges of a few pages. Brown staining to front pastedown and free endpaper. Binding is notably loose. Pen scribbling to rear pastedown and free endpaper. Small split to front hinge, causing board to be loose. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. water staining to all surfaces, with some brown and blue staining overall. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.