Life and Enterprises of Ferdinand De Lesseps G. Barnett Smith
1895. No edition remarks. 448 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Rough cut edges to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to hinges and gutters. Binding loose. Some pages detaching. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has slight forward lean.