Barrack -Room Ballads and The Story of The Gadsbys by Rudyard Kipling
420 pages. No dust jacket. Burgundy cloth. Heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Light cracking to hinges, causing boards to be loose. Heavy rub-marking to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions and scribbles to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Heavy bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends, causing cloth to fray. Book has noticeable forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed and tanned. Small dewy label taped to bottom spine.