The Book Lover: A Guide to the Best Reading by James Baldwin (1898) hardcover book

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James Baldwin - The Book Lover: A Guide to the Best Reading

Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1895. Twelfth Edition, 1898. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, illustration, and topstain. 222pp., including index. Poor condition. No dust jacket. Binding is slightly rolled with minor separation of textblock from spine. Rumpling to front and rear covers. Rubbing/foxing to front/rear covers. Wear to edges and upper/lower spine of boards. Previous owner inscription to front, inner board. Previous bookstore price in pencil to upper edge of front endpaper. Rumpling to rear, inner board. Creasing to lower corners of several pages at rear of text. Fragile rear hinge. Some creasing, toning, and discoloration to inner boards/pages of text block.

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