1939. Eighth Printing. 871 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Red textblock edge. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Minor dog-eared corners. Notable creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Minimal sunning to spine and edges. Dents to edges. Bubbling to spine. Textblock is very shaky.