1928. Fourth Printing. 453 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs and diagrams. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Minor pencil inscription 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.