1927. Reprinted. 282 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour and black and white illustration plates. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled but remains brighter on front.