The Discovery of America Vol. I. by John Fiske
1892. No edition remarks. 516 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white portrait frontispiece and maps. Gilt top edge to textblock. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly 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 slightly dulled. Book has slight backwards lean.