2nd printing of the 1947 1st edition. 224pp. Brown cloth boards (rubbed and marked at edges and around spine joints). Library lending sheet on front endpaper but no other library markings. Well thumbed, starting, old tape repair to endpapers. In its original dust jacket (worn, faded, chipped at edges with minor loss at lower leading corner). Hard to find in hardback, more so with dust jacket. 12mo
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