Possible Clues:

• Shabby old magistrate, a revolutionary
• Like a well-read page in a favorite book
• Shabby — much read
• Worn
• Of book, with pages turned down at corners
• Shabby, worn
• Agree odd description of book with bent pages (3-5)
• Animal died without clothes being worn
• It was not a new leaf that was turned over!
• Party clothes journalist creased