1940. First Edition. 146 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some heavy marks and staining to surfaces. Boards are slightly bowed.