1953. No Edition Remarks. 294 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth. Contains a laminate cover over the dust jacket that is stuck down to the boards. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Tape residue to endpapers and pastedowns with visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Pen inscriptions to rear pastedown and endpaper and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have visible edge wear and rubbing with moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and creasing with moderate sunning to spine as well.