First edition, first printing. 324pp + [1]-2,7-8 (ads). Bound in publisher's original ribbed maroon cloth. Very Good with with soiling and wear to cloth, fading to spine, creases to cloth at spine ends and corners bumped. Pages toned, foxed at textblock edge,prelims and terminals. Endsheets offset and hinges there slightly exposed. A rather uncommon title; one of 2,000 copies in the first printing.