Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo. Louis Guimbaud
1915. First Edition. 318 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece and plates. Hinges and gutters are heavily cracked with exposed netting. Binding is very loose. Pages are heavily tanned with noticeable foxing. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Pencil annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Moderate crushing and fraying to spine ends. Heavy white marks to boards. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Book has a slight forward lean.