1949. First Edition. 255 pages. Signed by the author. Black and white photographic dust jacket over black cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plates throughout. authors signature to the title page. Minor tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout and visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and noticeable rubbing to spine as well. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends as well.