Scarce first American edition. Decorated American trade binding. Burgundy cloth boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover and spine. Two tiny spots of wear at top spine edge; white numbers at lower edge of spine, but NOT an ex library. Small Philadelphia bookseller's ticket at lower edge of front pastedown. Binding is tight and square, gilt top page edges. Frontispiece illustration "The Reader" with tissue guard. Pages mostly clean -- a few have light foxing. 136 pages with Index. View More...
