Silken Snare by Olive Baxter
1957. First Published in GB. 190 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Old jacket front panel stuck to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Grubby pages throughout. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Brown marks overall. Dents to edges. Textblock is shaky.