1930. First Edition. 246 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black decorations; black lettering to front and spine. Colour illustrated frontispiece. From the Black's Boys' Library series. Front endpaper torn out. Severe cracking to hinges with exposed netting causing boards to be loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Front free endpaper cut out. Small tear to top edge of frontispiece. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book and on text block edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water marking to front, rear and spine. Dents to rear board edges. Wear marks overall. Spine is slightly sunned. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has a moderate forward lean.