London.A. & C. Black, Ltd. 1931. xx, 269pp. Illustrated throughout with colour plates and black & white line drawings within the text. Original red cloth, gilt. Dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Just a touch of spotting on the fore-edges; else a near fine copy in a very good wrapper.Presentation copy inscribed within the hanging sign on the pictorial endpaper: 'To Robert H. Goodsall from M. H. Spielmann his friend. 7 Sept. 1934.' Laid in is a three page manuscript letter to Goodsall from Spielmann.