Light wear on the edges. Shipped the next business day! We own a small family book store and sell our extra books and media that have been on our shelfs for too long. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: 1985, hardcover title, a reprint (of a work first published in 1876), illustrations by Paul Geiger, Reader's Digest, NY. Hardcover title, 223 pages. Nicely printed on ivory colored stock. The folks at the Reader's Digest have done a service to those who wish to have nice hardcover editions of classics. Here is a good example. A special copy of a work that has become famous as a novel and a film.