The spine ends and corners of the book covers have a bit of very light bumping and rubbing. Maroon colored cloth covered boards have gilt lettering to the spine and front cover of the book. There is one very small tear / frayed spot to the top rear spine joint. Gilding on spine of book is slightly dull, however, there is no rubbing or flaking. The text pages are clean and bright. The book includes a full color frontispiece (illustrator difficult to decipher but looks like Pitz is the last name). The front edge of the text block has one small spot of dark discoloration. Overall, a very nice clean copy. "This story happened in the Ozark Mountains, not many years ago. The Ozarks, as you no doubt know, are in Southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. The neighborhood of the story is not far from the boundary line which separates the two states; but for reasons which you will understand later I shall not say on which side of the line--.

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