Tongues of Conscience by Robert Hichens
1914. Fourth Edition. 368 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Book has a slight smoky odour. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to three front free endpapers. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Book has slight forward lean.