Chateaubriand and His Court of Women Francis Gribble
1909. No Edition Remarks. 347 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Hinges are moderately cracked with exposed netting. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front pastedown. Ownership plate stuck to front pastedown. Minor dog-eared corners and edges. Frontispiece and contents page detached but still present. Rough cut pages with top edges textblock dyed gilt. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Book has a slight forward lean. Wear marks to spine and panels.