1961. Reprint. 349 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustrated frontispiece of author. Binding remains firm. Pages remain bright and clear with light foxing to some page edges. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper and title page. Thumb-marking present to edges of some pages, text remains unaffected. Top edge of text block dyed light blue. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.