Far From the Madding Crowd

A.L. Burt Company, New York, 1910. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Beautifully bound, possibly a Zaehnsdorf binding; it's not stamped as such, but certainly appears to be so. Half bound, dark brown leather spine with raised bands, gilt still visible. Darker brown leather along the spine and across corners. Patterned, marble-esque, paper overlay on front and rear board. Brown and tan swirled paste-downs and end papers. Rubbing to bottom edge of boards, with paper more scraped than the leather. Rubbing to paper along outside edges and on top of the boards. Bumped corner tips with light wearing to the corners. Scraping to raised bands. Staining to dark leather along spine. The front flyleaf page opposite title page is showing peeling to the top layer of the page, towards the spine. Title page has small pencil notations in French. Smudges on title page. Various pages between the signatures are starting to pull away from sewn binding but are not loose and falling out. Splitting in gutter between rear flyleaf and the endpaper. There is a diagonal pocket of sorts glued to the rear end paper, and behind that, a small hole the size of a dime. Light foxing here and there, but not extensive nor heavy. Pages are age-toned. Photos happily furnished upon request. This book would make a striking addition to your book collection. 306 pages.