1939. First Edition. 703 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with blue lettering to spine and front. Black and white advertisements throughout. Binding shaky. Crinkling to pages at gutters. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Front hinge is cracked, and netting exposed. Frontispiece coming loose. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine ends and joints. Head is especially damaged. Tanning to spine and edges. Lettering is darkened slightly. Boards are bowed. Book has a slight forward lean.