1939. First Edition. 336 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with silver lettering. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with some foxing. Binding has remained firm. Corners are dogeared in places. Boards are a little rub worn with some slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped and spine ends are a little crushed. With some tanning to spine and edges. Water marks to boards and spine Book has a forward lean. Boards are bowed. Splitting to spine joints and ends.