1937. First Edition. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages bright with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Thumb marking present. Some cracking to hinges and gutters with exposed netting. Some page corners folded. Binding slightly slack. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners, crushing to spine ends and rubbing and moderate staining all over. Spine and lettering heavily faded. Book has forward lean.