The House of Arden by E Nesbit
1908. First Edition. 349 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by H.R. Millar. Gilt top edge to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has slight forward lean.