Westward Ho by Charles Kingsley
1903. No edition remarks. 424 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates by William Rainey. Prize plate to front pastedown. Book has a slight smoky odour. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.