Corners chipped, creases at spine, general wear. Pages are tanned, but clean and tight. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 222 pages; This short novel might have been based on the diary of a young Jewish girl forced to work as a prostitute in a concentration camp durig WWII. This theory and others are discused in the Wikipedia article on the book, http: //en. Wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Dolls