The Puppet Theatre by Jan Bussell
1946. First Edition. 143 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with silver gilt. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Colour frontispiece. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are slightly bowed.