William Collins Sons & Co London 1st edition 1974. Hard cover dust wrapper 285pp. Dw is very chipped and worn with a 3 inch piece missing across top spine and front. It has a number of creased tears and some rubbing of lettering. Foxing on reverse. Acid tape stains right along edges on reverse have stained through to front. Now protected. Boards are very worn with acid tape marks, splash marks and marks. Edges rubbed and corners bumped. Spine edges creased and worn. Foxing and marks on page edges. Page edges browning. Non authorial inscription on fly. Fair to good only reading copy.