1927. First Edition. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Colour illustrated frontispiece and illustrations. Ex-libris label. Hinges are heavily cracked with exposed netting. Moderate crinkling and cracking to paper at gutter. Pages and illustrations are heavily tanned and foxed with visible markings throughout. Binding throughout is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Illustrations opposite page 14 and 198 detached but still present. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing and splits to spine ends and corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.