The Mysterious City by Bessie Marchant
No Edition Remarks. 222 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated brown cloth. Illustrated by W.S. Stacey. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding. Blue staining to gutters and edges of first few pages. Binding is shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth.Book is slightly forward leaning. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and rubbed dark marking overall.