Davenport-Hines, Richard – GOTHIC: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin – North Point Press 1^st US (1999) - bumped lower board corners, bump to upper spine end & a touch of shelf dirt to text block edges o/w NF/scattered rubbing to black jacket [see scans], especially along the front flap edge & both flaps' corners       o/w Vgd. DJ (pp. 1 – 438/a history of gothic sensibility from the 17^th century to today – literature, architecture, painting, clothing, films, photography etc.)