1948. No Edition Remarks. 776 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavy cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled.