1944. First Edition. 175 pages. No dust jacket. Pale blue cloth with gilt lettering. Colour frontispiece from painting by Chiang Yee. Pages remain bright and clear with some slight tanning and foxing to textblock edges. An inscription in ink on front free endpaper and small bookshop label on front pastedown. Cracking to a rear gutter with exposed netting and one folded page tip. Moderately stained and rubbed boards with slightly bumped corners and sunned spine with slight crushing.