1941. First Edition. 282 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Light scuffing to text-block edges. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends with small splits to joints. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing and rubbed marking to surfaces. Book is forward leaning.