The Scarlet Clue by Silas K. Hocking
No Edition Remarks. 434 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have heavy edge wear with bumping to corners and rub wear all over. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Book is forward leaning. Water staining to spine and front board. Some fraying to cloth along board edges.