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First Edition (NAP, 1925 on the Title Page). You can see the covers in the photos. There is soiling and/or toning on the front and rear. The spine is leather. The gilt lettering there is very bright and free of wear. The spine ends have some crinkling and tiny tearing. The cover edges look okay, a little smooth rubbing here and there, a tiny scuff. The edges are pretty decent, a little rubbing, only the rear bottom one has a speck of rub-through. The bottom page edge has a few spots of tan soiling. The book is square. The spine is straight. The binding is quite solid from cover to cover. I found one instance of a thin space between facing pages, the two blank front endpapers. Both pages are tightly bound from top to bottom. The covers are nicely tight. The inside covers and endpapers are a light green. They look pretty good, the rear end paper has a little bit of toning. There is a small gift store label off the bottom edge of the rear cover, white and blue, a picture of a wrapped gift and I think an elf or an angel, cute. In very good shape. The company is E. H. Pusey in New York. There are no other attachments to be found anywhere in the book. The pages have some spotting/foxing. I would describe it as light to moderate, the light part once you get past the early pages. The half-title page and title page, as well as the, copyright, dedication, and contents pages are moderately to heavily spotted/foxed, in part a reaction to the glossy color frontispiece, which ironically is free of any foxing or spotting and has only a light amber hue at its margins. In front of the frontispiece is a tissue guard with a two paragraph description of the frontispiece. The print on it is blue and it is in very good shape. The plates begin after the text ends. The last few pages of the text are a List Of Illustrative Plates, each one being described. And before each plate (59 numbered plates, to be found in a section at the end of the book, and excluding the frontispiece) there is a page (not a tissue guard) giving a short description of the plate, with some of it repeated from the aforementioned list. The text pages facing the plates (the plates are on glossy paper) have foxing/spotting just off their top and outer edges. The plates, here, as was the case with the frontispiece, don't have what you would recognize, or I would recognize, as spotting or foxing. Rather they have an amber hue, restricted to their white margins, not the plates themselves. It looks like toning, that's what it looks like, not unattractive. The plates all appear to be in excellent condition. The text pages, putting aside the varying amounts of foxing, are in quite solid shape. I'm not seeing any soiling that I would distinguish from the foxing. And I'm not seeing any creasing. That's a clear positive. Nor are there any markings, and, as mentioned just the one attachment, and no names, no writing of any kind to be found anywhere. Seller Inventory # 004116
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