1952. First Edition. 331 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional moderate marks and staining. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled. Book has slight forward lean.