Secret Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV and of the Regency by The Duchesse D'Orleans
No Edition Remarks. 403 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front pastedown. Rough cut pages with top textblock edge dyed gilt. Hinges are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear and bubbling marks to boards.