1940. No Edition Remarks. 143 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to pastedowns. Small bookshop label to rear pastedown. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.