The Great Book Of Humour by J. M. Parrish and John R. Crossland (Ed.)
1935. No edition remarks. 763 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt blind stamped decoration. Contains in-text monochromatic illustrations throughout. Illustrated black and white frontispiece. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting causing the binding to be shaky. Binding has come away from spine strip, text-block held on by end-papers. Rear end-paper coming away from board. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Small split to cloth at head of spine. Moderate tanning to spine. White stains to boards.