1953. No Edition Remarks. 509 pages. Blue dust jacket over green cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis. Prize plate to front pastedown. Moderate creasing and tanning to pages with pen inscriptions to front endpaper. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and binding is loose. Boards have visible water stains and rubbing. Moderate bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Visible rubbing to spine. Unclipped jacket with heavy edge wear and visible rubbing. Splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Area of loss to spine and major sunning to interior.