1938. First Edition. 561 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters. Binding loose. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled. Book has slight forward lean.