1955. Fifth Impression. 656 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Prize plate stuck to front endpaper. Clean pages with mild tanning and notable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Book has forward lean. Mild denting to fore edge of front board.