What I know. This item is unavailable.What I know

1913. No Edition Remarks assumed first. 364 pages plus 32 pages of ads. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Heavy tanning to free endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking, hinges sound, no cracking. Bumping to corners and light crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm. " the memoirs of a chauffeur/motor engineer to King Edward VII from 1905-10, with an acknowledgement in the foreword to Dornford Yates but for whose tireless assistance these memories might never have been published (published in US as King Edward as I Knew Him by Dodd Mead).".