Blithe McBride by Beulah Marie Dix
1916. No Edition Noted. 258 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Black cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and major tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have major rubbing and heavy bumping to corners. Distinctive crushing to spine ends and splitting to joints. There is fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends and book is forward leaning.