Jack Ralston by Hampden Burnham
No Edition Stated. 448 pages. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial cloth with gilt to spine. Colour illustrated frontispiece and other plates throughout. Missing front free end paper. Pages and plates are mildly tanned and foxed, but text and images remain bright and clear. Binding is shaky, but all pages remain attached. Previous owner's inscription to page opposite front pastedown. Small brown stains to a few pages, but text is unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear, with noticeable corner bumping and minimal scuffing to edges. Spine is mildly tanned, with noticeable crushing and slight splitting to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Some scuffing and faint black marks overall.