London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1962. First edition, 8vo.,pp. x,381, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; toned and foxed to edges of text block, with very slight foxing to margins, some damp staining to boards, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, with wear to corners and chipping and wear to head and foot of spine, lightly toned and soiled to spine and extremities, overall a very good copy, now in a protective plastic dust-jacket cover.