1954. First Edition. 256 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and light tanning to text block edges. Boards have mild rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends as well. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and splitting to joints.