The Condemned Playground; Essays; 1927-1944. Cyril Connolly
1946. Reprinted. 287 pages. Brown dust jacket over dark green cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Front hinge is cracked with exposed netting and binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and O mark to front. Moderate bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket with major edge wear, sunning and foxing. Distinctive sunning to spine and splitting to joints. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends.