The jacket, now protected, is damaged at the edges missing small triangular pieces; both paste downs and end papers are foxed and there are small intermittent "spots" throughout the book; the head of the front board has a small area of discolouration, probably cause by smoke from an open fire and both the front end paper and half title page are bumped at the bottom edeg. Overall a very good second hand copy with no major faults. Includes a quarto sized promotional sample page, the head also smoke damaged, and with what appears to be envelope creases along its width, sent by N.H. Seward for "Camellia Trail: The Second Book on Camellias by E.G. Waterhouse which has a promotional plate untouched by the smoke. This copy is no 337 of 550 copies signed by Waterhouse, Feint and Jones. Alas no proof in the book, but this came from Jean Galbraith's library