1950. No Edition Remarks. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine and design to front. Signed with dedication from the author to Constantin Fitzgibbon on front free endpaper. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Small holes and scratches to front pastedown. Slight stains to pastedowns. Some slight creasing and mild tears to page edges. Occasional minor pencil marginalia. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Spine has two holes and frayed tears in cloth. A few liquid droplet marks to front.