30 pages, string tied in paper wrap covers. Author's inscription on front cover reads in full: "Mr. & Mrs. Carruth / With Best Wishes, / Not because you are getting / old, but because I / wrote this little essay 16 / years ago to protect myself / from being a bore to myself / and others. / Charles M. Sheldon / 1941" Very slight wear, though overall a clean, very tight, and intact copy of this scarce essay.