Royal Red Colt of the Royal Mounted by Jack O’Brien 1951 First Edition Vintage Children’s Book

This listing is for the vintage book “Royal Red: Colt of the Royal Mounted” by Jack O’Brien.
Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.
Copyright 1951
Stated First Edition
215 pages
Hardback
Publisher – The John C. Winston Company
Measures about 5 3/4 inches across by 8 1/2 inches.
This book has saw better days.
This is a former library book, so it still has things on it that a library book would have.
The 4th photo shows that very first page has separated from the spine area. It is still held on by the front cover.
There are some areas throughout the book where the pages are just starting to separate.
Some pages are dirty.
There is a name and date on the very first page.
In the 9th and 10th photos you can see how the fabric and book board are starting to separate from the back cover (at the top and bottom). It is splitting at the front cover.
The spine is faded.
The color has rubbed off in areas on the covers.
There are areas on the edges of the covers that have been worn through, exposing the book boards.
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