1955. First Edition. 231 pages. No dust jacket. Cream cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name label to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has slight forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed.