Doctor Heraclius Gloss Guy de Maupassant
1924. Popular edition. 127 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. Book has slight backwards lean. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are strongly bowed.