Balcony Empire by Reynolds and Eleanor Packard
1943. 277 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped and spine ends are a mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.