Weihnachtsgeschichten by Paul Heyse - 1891

Berlin: Wilhelm Hertz, 1891. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Poor. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, brown cloth boards with full cover decorations on front and spine. The book has issues but is complete and in one piece. The exterior cloth is split at the upper left of the front board's hinge by almost an inch and half and on the lower right of the rear board by almost 3 inches. There is also a horizontal crack on the spine cloth as seen in the photos. The front internal hinge has a thin cracked with one larger open area in the same is true for the rear boards inner hinge. The rear end page also has a small folded over tear along the top edge. The half title page contains in 1891 Christmas gift inscription, which is the only handwriting found in the book. There are no library markings or bookplates present. The biggest problem, which is why this book was graded as poor and not fair is there is a small section of pages near the center that are slightly offset. This issue appears to be from page 161 two 176 and you can see they extend a bit on both the exterior top page edge as well as the long edge. The rest of the page bindings of fine and pages are secure. That quadrant of pages may need to be removed and reset so they align correctly, or you could just leave it as is. Pages are toned due to age and there is some scattered spotting and foxing present.