A Start in Life Honore de Balzac
1897. Caxton edition. 340 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates. Rough cut edges to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.