New Edition. 496 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Cracking to gutters and hinges, with exposed netting. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean.