Green decorated cloth HB,cover bumped on corners and spine ends, faded and marked on back of cover,lovely decoration on cover and spine,flower endpapers,prize award on inner front cover,author of Wills voyages and Coral and cocoa-nut,internally torn along spine,great illustrations by W.Oberend,book slightly loose,pages slightly browned and marked but no rips,stamps or inscriptions,few pages slightlymoth eaten but good,beautiful plates