1934. First edition thus. 223 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. two-colour illustration plates by Walter Trier. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Minor inscriptions to front endpapers. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning. Some wrinkles to cloth on front. Book has slight forward lean.