1953. First Edition. 240 pages. Blue dust jacket over black cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with pen inscriptions to front endpaper and slight dog-eared pages throughout. Notable tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and noticeable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends as well. Clipped jacket with visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and rubbing. Splitting to rear joint and visible foxing to interior.