No Edition Stated. 247 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with black decoration. Shaky binding due to heavily cracked rear hinge. Blue illustrated frontispiece, with black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Thumb-marking to some pages but text isn't obscured. Moderate removal of paper to rear pastedown. Boards have heavy shelf-wear, with visible corner bumping and noticeable scuffing to edges. Small section of cloth removed from fore edge of front board. Spine is slightly sunned, with noticeable crushing and splitting to ends. Noticeable marking overall. Forward leaning.