Tarnished Coronets;: Studies in the History of the British Peerage by M. Nelson D'Auvergne
1937. Second Edition. 279 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and illustrated plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and moderate foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible sunning and rubbing with minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible sunning to spine as well. There is also splitting to the front joint.