1957. No edition remarks. 652 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavy cracking to hinges and gutters. Binding loose. Very heavy marginalia and underlining in pen and coloured pencil throughout. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Some additional marks and staining.