There is also some light creasing and some small areas of rubbing at the extremities. The dustwrapper is unusually complete, with just some minor loss and wear at the top of the spine, and a small nick out of the bottom edge of the back panel. Biggs, is correct for the first impression, with no mention of impressions on the front flap. ***In a very good white, grey and yellow printed dustwrapper, that has been corner price-clipped. The paper stock is clean and is much whiter than is usually found for this book (which is normally found with tanned paper stock). Internally also very good with no inscriptions - just a couple of light contemporary date stamps to the top of the front free endpaper - showing when the book was bought. The fore edge of the page block has foxing which bleeds through to the edges of the page margins in places. The top edge of the page block is stained yellow by the publisher and is still nice and clean without any fading. Corners quite sharp with just very slight creasing to the top corner tips. Head and tail of spine slightly creased, with a small bump to the bottom edge of the back board. The silver and gold is still beautifully bright, having been protected by the dustwrapper. ***Very good in silver-grey boards with silver titles to the spine on a golden-yellow panel. First impression of the true first edition.
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