1939. First Edition. 407 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates. Ex libris plate at front. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to hinges with exposed netting. Binding loose. Frontispiece and front endpapers detaching. 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. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.