1948. First Edition. 578 pages. Grey dust jacket over blue cloth. Minor tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and slight foxing and dog-eared pages throughout. Visible tanning to text block edges and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Boards have visible rubbing and noticeable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and fair water marks to spine. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. Moderate foxing and sunning to spine. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and splitting to joints.