Two dustjackets come with this book: one very good plus, and a fine one. As dampstains go, this one is minor - I have seen much, much worse (and would grade those books much lower: "good", "fair", "poor", "hopeless", etc. The rest of the book is so nice, it is difficult for me to condemn it harshly just because of this problem. long, with many pages marked to a much lesser degree. The effect on the interior looks like a small, faint, semi-circular shadow (with a slightly darker rim) at the far right edges of the pages, on the front and back sides of about 60 leaves: 1/2 cm. When the book is closed, this mark appears to be just a small white patch, lighter than the tanned page edges beside it, about 1" long by 1/4" wide. The other problem is a small splash mark to the fore-edge. The trivial flaw is a small name written at the top left corner of the front pastedown, hidden by the flap. It has two flaws, one trivial, the other more serious - other than these, the book is crisp and fine, a lovely copy. It is difficult for me to easily assign a condition term to this particular book: overall, "very good", I would say. First US edition, first printing (stated "First Edition" on the copyright page) of the author's spellbinding debut novel.
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