Modeste Mignon H. de Balzac
1896. No Edition Remarks. 293 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Notable tanning to spine and boards. Book is slightly forward leaning.