1943. This edition. 144 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. 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. Some additional mild marks and staining. Book has strong forward lean. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.