1939. No Edition Remarks. 235 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth covered boards. Dedication from the author on front free endpaper. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is heavily dulled but remains bright on front. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has slight forward lean.