UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

NY, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1926. xiv, 432 pp., 1/2 green leather w/ green cloth boards & gilt lettering & decoration, top edges gilt; / The Modern Readers' Series, Half Leather Edition. / Dust jacket in clear archival grade cover; Book shows significant wear to ends of spine w/ leather chipped away, esp. at head; remainder of spine, however, is bright w/ the gilt lettering still crisp & unrubbed; some light bumping to corners of boards w/ cloth on bottom corner of front board just worn through; a little rubbing at extremeties of boards, esp. bottom front, w/ a dent to top edge of rear board; some small bumps. scrapes & nicks to top edge of page block, in one case causing a small crease & short tears to 1 leave, & causing small bends to several others; browning & some foxing tp remaining edges of page block; some areas of browning to endpapers, towards edges coinciding w/ leather portion of boards, and more lightly, corresponding w/ glassine jacket; pages lightly browned; Jacket is somewhat faded in part w/ the rear panel looking orange & the spine & front panels looking more brown; the jacket is in 2 parts, separated at the joint between the front & spine panels, w/ pieces missing at heal of spine &, more substantially at head, where the missing pieces intrude into the front panel; the fold between the front panel & front flap is missing pieces at ends & is 1/3 to 1/2 worn through to separation; there are some other chips, tears & creases to edges, plus wear along the remaining folds, a rub line each to front & rear panels & a few small satins to front panel; all text is essentially unaffected by these defects, & the jacket is held together & protected from further deterioration by a clear Brodart jacket cover / Also included is the rarely seen glasine jacket, placed otherwise unprotected between the book & the outer jacket. It is imprinted with a spider and web design, and bears the translucent green imprint of a price of one dollar and twenty-five cents to the center of the front panel (which price is also penciled to the book's rear pastedown). It is well worn, with chipping & tears at edges and folds, some creasing, and browning particularly to portion covering leather portion of book's binding. Also, the books's endpapers bear a lightly printed green picture of sailing ships at sea. /. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Poor to Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.