BRAVE NEW WORLD
US: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. Hardback. Good +. Item #66657
Brown cloth over boards with gilt titling and floral decorative bands to spine, and gilt-debossed emblem to front board. Pages have moderate foxing to half-title page and title page, and light to moderate scattered soiling to margins and gutters particularly at pages 98-125 and 204 till the end. Text remains clean and legible. Endpages are foxed with heavy foxing to fore edge of pastedowns. Text block has light sunning to lower edge and moderate sunning to fore edge and top edge, spot of soiling near center of lower edge and fore edge, and top edge sprayed maroon but is moderately faded. Boards have light scuffing from shelf wear, heavy sunning to spine with heavy tarnishing to gilt particulars, light sunning to top edge, and moderate bumping to corners; heavy bumping to ends of spine with chipping to cloth at tail and tear to cloth across headcap. Binding is tight, spine is cocked.
Price: $425.00