184pp, various colour plates, numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 4to. Sun-faded spine, board edges tanned, rubbed corners and spine ends. Text block edges tanning, signs of use on fore edge. Endpapers starting to tan, foxing. Pages just starting to age. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket tanning and foxing, has some loss and closed tears, some shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.
