The Red Eric or the Whaler's Last Cruise by RF.M. Ballantyne. Published by Routledge in circa 188 (no date). A green cloth cover with black decorations and gilt lettering and decorations. There is some light wear to the cover and a very slight tilt to the book.The front paste-down has a book-seller's label and the free-front page has a prize inscription. dated 1882. The book hows some slight toning and some slight scattered foxing ( a little more obvious on the preliminaries). The binding is firm. a good to very good copy.