Honore De Balzac : His Life and Writings by Mary F. Sandars
1904. No edition remarks. 396 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Half bound red leather with red cloth covered boards. Black and white portrait as frontispiece. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Library plates, stickers, stamps and inscriptions to pre-lims, end-papers and paste downs. Binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Minor peeling to leather at spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Spine is worn. Library label taped to spine.