The Ruby Fairy Book by Various
No Edition Stated. 281 pages. No dust jacket. Red pictorial cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations By H.R. Millar and colour illustrated plates by Frank Pape. Colour portrait illustration on the front board. Page 145 is detached with loss towards the gutters, text is unaffected. Mild cracking to gutters, binding is slightly loose. Plate facing page 184 is loose, but still present. Pages are lightly tanned with occasional speckles of foxing throughout. Slightly more pronounced to endpapers and text block edges. Occasional thumb-marking. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping. Visible sinning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Fraying to spine edges. Faint water staining to boards with mild black markings. Gilt lettering to spine is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean.