1940 First Trade Edition   Preface by Frederic G. Melcher. 8vo   pp: xvii, (iv) foldout chronology, 379 with index, colophon; 40 illustrations in text. Bound in tan cloth, gilt-stamped spine, slightly faded.  Signed dedication  by S.K. ‘Dedicated in 1954 to the Simons in London by The Kramers in Washington, who had dedicated half a decade to this thing in Chicago in the thirties, with all affection.’.