1939. First Edition. 281 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Flatsigned by author to front free endpaper. Rough-cut pages. Slight tears to pages 279-281; text unaffected. Minor foxing and tanning to pages, pastedowns and free endpapers. More prominent to text block edges. Some tangible looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has similar sunning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.