1957. Second Impression. 249 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with light tanning and foxing to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. 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 edges. Visible wear marks to boards.