Messmates: A Book of Strange Companionships in Nature by Edward Step
No Edition Remarks. 220 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Some page corners folded. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.