Black 1/4 cloth, brown paper covered boards with front cover pastedown illus., front cover lettered in black, spine panel lettered in gilt, top text block edge stained orange. Stated 1st edition, 1st ptg. w/ "A-X" (Jan. 1923). (Note that stated 1sts are also found with an L-X code designating a later 1923 printing/issue.) Light wear with minimal exposure to bottom corners, mild foxing/toning along text block fore-edge. Slight dampstain to top corner of front flyleaf only. [vii],274 pp., illus. w/ 35 plates including color frontis., 2 more color. Brown paper dust jacket shows minor dampstain along top rear edge and another (also light) extending from top front edge into color pastedown illus., several short closed edge tears and several smaller chips or areas of loss, clipped front flap, displays well in mylar.