The Merrivale Mystery James Corbett
1929. First Edition. 315 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Front free endpaper appears to have been removed. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding, causing boards to be loose. Binding is shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Moderate staining to surfaces with discolouration to cloth.