The blue boards are lightly chipped at the edges; the back cover has a small stain at the head's outer edge as does the spine strip; which is also chipped head and tail. There's a neat ownership signature on the front end paper, a small, thin stain running vertically along the outer edge and a very attractive book plate. The pages are lightly tanned, else a clean unmarked copy in solid binding, though obviously second hand. The book offers no date, which is taken from Trove, a and which matches the date of the ownership signature. "Ethel Boileau, a daughter of an English clergyman, was a novelist who published 11 books in the 1920s and 1930s, then one more in 1947." (LibraryThing) Ballade in G-Minor deals with a contemporary upper-class English family.