Quicksilver: or The Boy with No Skid to His Wheel by G. Manville Fenn
1889. No Edition Remarks. 382 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Sticker to rear pastedown. Previous owner's inscription for front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Grubby pages throughout. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed binding threads. Front and rear boards are loose but still attached. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Splits to spine ends. Black marks and scratches overall. Textblock is shaky. Book has a visible forward lean.