This hardback is more than a little sorry for itself. It has lost its spine, the front cover is unattached and the back cover hanging on by a few threads. At some stage someone tried to tape the front cover on and the tape marks remain. It suffers from general discolouring throughout with a foxing to the pages at the end of the book and there are three significant tears, one of which was taped up with long-disintegrated sellotape. All three damaged pages are pictured. All the pages themselves are present and other than those mentioned in good condition - but it has been priced according to the stated defects.