Condition Continued: The illustrated front inside cover and end paper looks very good, clean. There is a 1 1/4 inch tear at the juncture coming up from the bottom edge, but the little piece of paper there is present and in very good shape and can easily be glued back down. There is a crack with webbing showing between the rear inside cover and rear end paper, some of the paper to paste down is present, some of it isn't. If you pull either cover from the side you will feel a little bit of give, but neither cover is in any danger of detaching. There is another crack between the blank verso of the 'This book belongs to' page and the half-title page. I didn't see any other cracks between any of the pages in the book. However, to get to the bad news, one page of text is missing, entirely torn away except for a blank piece at the top inside corner. The page is 19-20. I turned over all the pages in the book. There are two color plates that are detached. They are in good condition except for small tears at the outer edge. Another color plate is detached over its top half only. Text page 15-16 is also detached. And two pages, 153-156,  are bound together but also detached. In the main, the pages are fairly clean. I counted around a couple of dozen or so spots, all of them small. However, although I don't see anything on the middle page edge, there's a light water stain off the outer edge of approximately 50 or so pages. It's oddly intermittent. It includes the title page and frontispiece (see photo). I also counted approximately 30 or so edge tears, most on the bottom edge just beside the juncture. With the exception of two, they are quite small, and even those two don't reach either the print or the illustrations. There aren't a great many creases. I unfolded and flattened out a few bottom corners. Not much loss to be found, a tiny sliver at the bottom edge of one page. The only writing in the book is off the bottom edge of the 'book belongs to' page: a neatly penned adult signature and below that 'From his father on his fifth birthday. June 10, 1909.' The only marking in the book is off the bottom edge of the illustrated rear end paper, a lightly stamped 'F. A. O. Schwarz, 41 W. 23rd St., New York.' There are no attachments of any kind in the book. The few first state copies for sale that are described as being in very good or fine condition are priced between $1,400.00 and $2.800.00.