Sheldons' Modern School Fifth Reader

See photos for condition details. Hardcover, pale red cloth boards with red leather to spine. Exterior shows scuffing and spotting and leather has where spots as it is in its original state. There is some chipping to the spine edges, particularly at the top. Edges and corners show bumps/light wear. Internal binding is tight as far as the text pages but the front hinge as a crack starting, not in the gutter but about one fourth of an inch up the pastedown. There are two pages with handwriting on them - the front end page in the rear end page. All the pages in between are in excellent shape, clean with no markings (other than the table of contents which has four small X marks by some of the selections). The young woman who was the original owner from Pennsylvania has her name and the front along with the following poem: "Love me little, love me long. Do not flirt, for it is wrong. (There are than three letters) Bad girls at school.). On the rear end page the following is written very lightly in pencil: "Remember well and bear in mind, a nice young man Hard to find and when you find one good and true stick to him like Spalding glue.".…