Cranford and Mary Barton Mrs. Gaskell
409. 409 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates by Chris Hammond. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pen inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Some additional heavy marks and staining.