Chicago: Pellegrini & Cudahy, [1947]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very good+ in very good dust jacket. Minor bumping to spine ends. Small remnants of tape to bottom and top edges of boards. Light tape residue to front and rear free end papers. Else is clean and bright. Minor wear to dust jacket includes creasing and rubbing as well as fading to spine panel. Small amount has been neatly cut from the top and bottom edges of the dust jacket totaling in just a few millimeters. Dust jacket is now in a protective sleeve. 518 pages. OCC/101823