Hello Manor_House -some advice would be much appreciated.
Picked up a copy of P G Wodehouse, Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, ex library, usual library stamps but strangely they have left the fep in place. D/J by Osbert Lancaster and here the plot thickens. ISBN on d/j 0214668150 but on catalogue page ISBN 0214668142. It does state first published 1972 Barrie & Jenkins. The river has this as a first edition but is it? with conflicting ISBNs.
More difficult this time - how does one clean cloth boards.Picked up a lovely 1961 Tales from Japan, retold by shirley Goulden, Illus. Benvenuti and internally clean, tight and sound. However no d/j and the boards are faded in part, some pencil lines or old biro (very pale) and two of the corners, not bumped, have lost a tiny piece of cloth. Do I leave well alone and try and sell it, warts and all. I could eat the illustrations!