1951. Reprinted. 269 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs throughout. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Cracking to hinges with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled. Boards are strongly bowed. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.