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8vo. 8 1/8" by 5 1/2". Very good book in very good plus dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by the author on the FFEP. In oatmeal cloth covered boards with "SL" monogram gilt-stamped on the front cover, gilt-stamped lettering against red background and gilt graphics on spine. Upper external page edges are tinted but faded. Board spine and extremities are lightly sunned. Fore-edge corners are minimally curled. External page edges are age-toned. Shadow transfers and faint foxing to end papers. Back paste down has small red-pencilled date "May '43". Text pages are age-toned, else internally clean. Text block is sound.Dust jacket spine is sunned. Fore-edge folds are creased and scuffed but not rubbed through except at the fore-edge corners. Small chips along edges at head and tail of jacket spine; front corner at head of spine has a 1/2" closed vertical tear along the fold. Upper right fore-edge corner of front panel is rubbed and with several chips and 1 3/8" closed vertical tear along the fold. Not… Read More