A few of the top corner tips are slightly creased. There is none of the usual offsetting to the front and rear endpapers and no foxing to the interior pages which are clean. Internally also very good, with no inscriptions or annotations'. The book is produced using nice quality paper. The binding feels slightly strained, but there is no splitting to the endpapers or the page block. Some creasing to the spine which is also slightly faded. The cloth covering is marked in places, through age and handling, particularly on the back board where there is a light stain near the edge. The boards are rubbed and creased at the edges, mainly at the top and tail of the spine, and the cloth is slightly torn and frayed at the top and bottom of the spine. With the Erratum slip present, tipped in to p.396 - interestingly, the slip incorrectly states p.398 as the error reference page! **Very good in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Illustrated with eight monochrome plates, including a full-page frontispiece portrait of Robert Graves. Third impression of the true first edition, published in November 1929 - the same year as the first impression.
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