1936. First edition thus. 281 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Rough cut edges to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Book has slight forward lean.