1934. First edition thus. 301 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Some page edges torn. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces.