No edition remarks. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates by Simon Harman Vedder. Book Club plate to front pastedown. Gilt edges to textblock. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has strong forward lean.