Joy of Youth :Letters of Patrick Hore-Ruthven by Ethel Anderson (editor).
1950. First Edition. 233 pages. Green dust jacket over blue cloth with a photographic black and white frontis. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and major foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have heavy rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier rubbing to spine. Unclipped jacket with major edge wear and rubbing. Areas of loss to spine and edges and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Visible foxing to interior and splitting to joints.