Book has bright gilt decorations, green speckled page edges, square, there is a previous owners neat gift inscription in pen to first blank page, bright pages are lightly creased or wavy, One of the two fold out maps has an extra crease where it was at some point incorrectly refolded, but is now sitting correctly. Will be carefully bubblewrapped and packed in a box. Please see my other listings for more Tolkien books.