Collectible - Acceptable First Edition

NY: Dodd Mead 1938. 1st edition with same date on title and copyrt pgs and no additional printings mentioned. Ex-school library. Hardcover 8vo 258 pgs. B/w photo. Fair to good with no dust jacket. Re-bound in bright green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Light wear to spine ends. Pocket on rear pastedown and something removed from rear endpaper. Light stamps to front endpaper and pastedown and copyrt pg. Pencil writing to title pg. Someone has written over in ink every letter in the first 5 and 1/2 lines of the Introduction and also 17 lines on the last pg. Original text still legible, barely. The rest of the book is clean. Binding sound. (literature, novels) Inquire if you need further information.