Old Man Goriot by Honore de Balzac
1949. No Edition Remarks. 232 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering. Ex-libris label. Translated by Joan Charles. Contains black and white and colour illustrations by Rafaello Busoni. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pen markings to back pastedown. Shop ink stamp to page 232. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened.