1950. Second Edition. 763 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Minor foxing and noticeable tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Annotations, underlining and marginalia in pencil throughout; text remains unaffected. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has much heavier sunning with soft splitting and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.