If I were a used book, I would be tight and free of edgewear, with an unbroken spine, but my cloth-covered boards would show just the slightest evidence of rubbing. My endpapers would be lightly foxed. A few of my pages would have unfortunate inked marginalia, such as question marks and exclamation points, with occasional apparently inconsequential paragraphs completely underlined. A couple of dogeared pages. Corner bumped. Overall very good condition, clean and bright if somewhat shelfworn, in very good+ dust jacket lightly chipped at top of front panel. An excellent reading copy, warmly inscribed by the author in year of publication.