Victory, an Island Tale Joseph Conrad
1924. Tenth Edition. 326 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Light soiling to pastedowns. Light scuffing to text-block edges. 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. Light tanning to spine and edges. Notable water staining to surfaces causing scuffed discolouration to cloth. Scuffing and dark stained marking overall. Book is visible forward leaning.