The Strings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography Louis MacNeice
1965. First Edition. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece and plates. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with light tanning and foxing to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Minor staining to fore edge textblock. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.