Traveller's Prelude by Freya Stark
1950. First Edition. 346 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs. Ex libris plate at front. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has strong forward lean. Some wrinkling to cloth.