Book itelf is very handsome -- decorative pictorial cover is clean and bright and book is tightly bound with no names or writing. Pages have toned, more at title page than elsewhere, perhaps due to the handsome color plate across from it. Illustrated with black and white art in text. A 1925 Christmas gift inscription appears at top of front free endpaper reading, ""To ---------- From Mother. Christmas, 1925." I have never seen this book with a jacket, but though it has some issues, it's completely intact and has not even been price-clipped. Faults are chipping at bottom and top of spine and on three corners at front, primarily the outer lower one, soiling to back cover impervious to cleaning, a few small tears and some blue ink on front where small owner filled in the "empty" parts of a few letters in the title. Nonetheless, it looks respectable in brand new mylar. 318 swashbuckling pages!