First Edition in original dust jacket.Very clean unfaded black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean, with previous owner inscription on front free endpaper and ink-stamped name of previous owner on front free endpaper. Illustrated with many wonderful black and white photographs, drawings. 296 pages with index. Clean dust jacket has a few small closed edge tears, price clip to front inside flap corner. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.