A Gentle Cynic : Being a Translation of the Book of Koheleth by Morris Jastrow
1919. No Edition Remarks. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated brown cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Newspaper clipping and pen inscriptions to front endpaper and heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and sticker to front. Moderate bumping to corners and heavier crushing to spine ends. Major sunning to spine and fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends.