The front of the jacket has loss to the head of the spine, which is also chipped; there is loss to the head of the spine; the back suffers from minor loss to the outer edge and near the edge of the spine strip, both at the tail; and the head of back flap is chipped at the edge, with a tiny chip missing. The boards have a slight forward lean.There is a neat ownership signature on the front end paper and the pages are lightly yellowed. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. Includes a 16 page catalogue of other tirtles in John Murray's Imperial Library. Spanish Maine was published in America under the title of the Desert Heritage. "Percival Christopher Wren (1 November 1875 - 22 November 1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was one of 33 novels and short story collections that he wrote, mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa." (Wikipedia)