1938. First Edition. 469 pages. Red cloth covered boards. Black and white photographic plates. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Spine heavily worn and deteriorating. Gilt lettering dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces. Boards are slightly bowed.