£180
Dickens (Charles), A CHRISTMAS CAROL, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, first edition, purple cloth boards, gilt embossed title and illustration to cover and spine, illustrated endpapers, pencil inscription to front free endpaper, tissue-guarded lithographic frontispiece, eleven further tissue-guarded lithographic plates, monochrome line illustrations throughout, William Heinemann, London 1915 (at fault)
Binding reasonably tight. Wear and discolouration to boards, fading to spine, particularly at top edge, rubbing to gilt highlights. Foxing to block edges. Purple finish of top edge of block appears to have run slightly on to top page edges. Most text pages show some foxing and some show creases to the corners.
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