La rosa negra by B.Costain, Thomas - 1946

Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1956. Hardcover. Good. 1956. No Edition Remarks. 505 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth covered boards. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout by Martha Sawyers and William Reusswig. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is heavily dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.

Doubleday & Company Inc, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1958. No Edition Remarks. 640 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green and grey cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed green. Minor water staining to top edges textblock. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning, wear and water marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Doubleday & Company Inc, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1949. No Edition Remarks. 430 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white maps. Clean pages and maps with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1944. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1944. No Edition Remarks. 472 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Lettering is bright and clear. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 478 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.