Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant
1909. No edition remarks. 300 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound brown leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. In French. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy wear with bumped and abraded corners. Spine ends similarly worn and spine itself strongly scuffed. Gilt dulled. Board surfaces scratched and rubbed.