1940. First Edition. 223 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with lettering. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends and corners. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.