Brown polished cloth with marbeled paper trimmed to simulate half-bound leather, ribbed spine with gilded decoration & lettering on red panel, gilded decorative endpapers, marbled edges, 278pp. Spine ends & front top corner lightly bumped, two tiny splits on headband, small light ink stain at foot, edges faded, lacking front flyleaf, rather heavy, stiff text paper is agetoned to a very light tan, crisp & clean, protected in a new archival glassine dust jacket.

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