The Sidelights of London by John Arthur Robert Cairns
1923. No Edition Remarks. 307 pages. No dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis. Heavy tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and major tanning to text block edges. Pencil inscriptions to rear pastedown and front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have major rubbing and edge wear with visible bumping to corners. Distinctive crushing to spine ends and major sunning to spine. There is fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends and splitting to joints.