Oswald Bastable First Printing by Nesbit (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Brock, Charles E. ; Millar, H. R. (illustrator). 1st Edition. True first British printing. No jacket as issued. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and H. R. Millar. All illustrations are present and in very good condition. Tissue guard to frontispiece is missing. 371 pages plus eight page catalogue to rear of publisher's other titles. True first issue with page 96 numbered as page 69. Burgundy boards with (faded) gold lettering/design to spine and bright gold lettering/design to front are very good with a little pushing/bumping to corners, few small marks, little darkening to spine, the odd minor bump/rub to edges and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/little fraying to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Little spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Rough cut page edges and bottoms. Top of pages slightly dusty with the odd small mark/minor foxing. Odd small mark/mild foxing to page edges and bottoms. Inside boards/end-papers tanned with the odd small mark and (quite) severe foxing. Pages bit tanned. Odd small mark/scattered foxing to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.