1939. First Edition. 311 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with tape repair. 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 strongly dulled. Book has pronounced forward lean.