diff --git a/packages/bindx-editor/src/plugins/behaviour/paste/HtmlDeserializer.ts b/packages/bindx-editor/src/plugins/behaviour/paste/HtmlDeserializer.ts
index 3a4a2172..f403cf67 100644
--- a/packages/bindx-editor/src/plugins/behaviour/paste/HtmlDeserializer.ts
+++ b/packages/bindx-editor/src/plugins/behaviour/paste/HtmlDeserializer.ts
@@ -103,7 +103,19 @@ export class HtmlDeserializer {
 
 	deserializeBlocks(list: Node[], cumulativeTextAttrs: TextAttrs): Descendant[] {
 		const result = this.processNodeListPaste(list, cumulativeTextAttrs)
-		return result?.texts ?? result?.elements ?? []
+		if (result === null) {
+			return []
+		}
+		// `deserializeBlocks` is the block-content boundary — it is called both at the top level
+		// (from `withPaste`) and for a block's children (from each block plugin's `next`). Interior
+		// whitespace has already been collapsed per text node, but a run assembled from
+		// pretty-printed / indented source HTML still carries a leading/trailing space at the block
+		// edge (e.g. `<p>\n\t\tSome text\n</p>` → `" Some text "`). Trim those edges so pasting does
+		// not prepend or append a stray space, matching how a browser renders `white-space: normal`.
+		if (result.texts !== undefined) {
+			return trimBlockEdgeWhitespace(result.texts)
+		}
+		return result.elements
 	}
 
 	private deserializeTextNode(node: Node, cumulativeTextAttrs: TextAttrs): Descendant[] | null {
@@ -166,3 +178,24 @@ export class HtmlDeserializer {
 		return null
 	}
 }
+
+// Trims leading whitespace from the first text leaf and trailing whitespace from the last text leaf
+// of a block's inline content, descending through inline wrappers (e.g. anchors) to reach the edge leaf.
+const trimBlockEdgeWhitespace = (nodes: Descendant[]): Descendant[] => {
+	const trimmedStart = mapEdgeTextLeaf(nodes, 'start', text => text.replace(/^\s+/, ''))
+	return mapEdgeTextLeaf(trimmedStart, 'end', text => text.replace(/\s+$/, ''))
+}
+
+const mapEdgeTextLeaf = (nodes: Descendant[], edge: 'start' | 'end', map: (text: string) => string): Descendant[] => {
+	const index = edge === 'start' ? 0 : nodes.length - 1
+	const node = nodes[index]
+	if (node === undefined) {
+		return nodes
+	}
+	const mapped: Descendant = SlateText.isText(node)
+		? { ...node, text: map(node.text) }
+		: { ...node, children: mapEdgeTextLeaf(node.children, edge, map) }
+	const copy = nodes.slice()
+	copy[index] = mapped
+	return copy
+}
diff --git a/tests/unit/editor/repro-paste-leading-space.test.ts b/tests/unit/editor/repro-paste-leading-space.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..32c550ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/editor/repro-paste-leading-space.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+// Regression test for https://github.com/contember/bindx/issues/60
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'bun:test'
+import { HtmlDeserializer } from '@contember/bindx-editor'
+import type { Descendant } from 'slate'
+
+// The paste pipeline (withPaste) builds an HtmlDeserializer with a default-element
+// factory and no extra plugins, then feeds it the parsed clipboard HTML via
+// `deserializeBlocks`. We exercise that same path directly.
+const createDeserializer = () =>
+	new HtmlDeserializer((children: Descendant[]) => ({ type: 'paragraph', children }) as any, [])
+
+const deserializeHtml = (html: string): Descendant[] => {
+	const doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, 'text/html')
+	return createDeserializer().deserializeBlocks(Array.from(doc.body.childNodes), {})
+}
+
+// Collect every text leaf's string, in document order.
+const gatherText = (nodes: Descendant[]): string =>
+	nodes
+		.map(node => ('text' in node ? (node.text as string) : gatherText((node as any).children ?? [])))
+		.join('')
+
+describe('HtmlDeserializer paste whitespace', () => {
+	test('should not prepend a leading space when pasting indented block HTML', () => {
+		// Copying from any pretty-printed / indented HTML source yields text nodes
+		// like "\n\t\tSome text\n". The deserializer collapses the leading newline +
+		// indentation, but must not leave it as a stray leading space at the block edge.
+		const result = deserializeHtml('<p>\n\t\tSome text\n</p>')
+		const text = gatherText(result)
+
+		expect(text.startsWith(' ')).toBe(false)
+		expect(text.endsWith(' ')).toBe(false)
+		expect(text).toBe('Some text')
+	})
+
+	test('should still collapse internal whitespace runs to a single space', () => {
+		// Trimming block edges must not break the CSS `white-space: normal` collapsing
+		// of interior whitespace between words.
+		const result = deserializeHtml('<p>\n\tfoo\n\t\tbar\n</p>')
+		expect(gatherText(result)).toBe('foo bar')
+	})
+})