1953. No Edition Remarks. 454 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Previous owner's name to front pastedown and a small bookshop label. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is very heavily dulled. Some additional marks and staining. Boards are slightly bowed.