1950. First Edition. 284 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece and plates throughout. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creases. Moderate tape repairs to flaps, spines and panels. Minor foxing to interior flaps, panels and spine.