The Emperor's Trumpeter by Albert Lee
No Edition Remarks. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated blue cloth. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Front free endpaper has been removed. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Dark rubbed thumb-marking and brown staining present. Heavy cracking to hinges with exposed binding, causing boards to be slightly loose. Binding is shaky. Boards have heavy edge wear with bumping to corners and rub wear all over. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and dark stained marking overall. Heavy creasing and rippling to rear board cloth. Book is notably forward leaning.