We use the following grading system for book and boxed games:
Mint - Prefect condition. Will only ever be used if the item is still sealed or personally owned from new and unused.
NM (Near Mint) - Item will appear in new condition. May have fingerprints etc. but no damage and minimal signs of use.
EX (Excellent) - Item will be used, but carefully. Boxes may have a little scuffing. Possibly signs of shelf wear to book corners or spine. Some discolouration to the edges of pages in older books. Hard backed books may show the odd indentation on cover. No tears, creases or writing etc.
VG+ (Very Good Plus) - Item is in good useable condition. Depending on age may have split box corners or a scuffed, stained or compressed box. Books may have small tears, but nothing that affects use. May have a name written inside the fly sheet and possibly the odd annotation, but nothing across the print. Signs of shelf wear to covers or spine. Staples may have started to rust. May have the odd crease or dog eared corner. Map pages and other pull/cut out item may be loose but will be present Item will be complete, intact and perfectly useable.
VG (Very Good) - As above but more minor faults in evidence.
G (Good) - Item is complete and intact but has clearly had a hard life. Spine may be starting to weaken but all pages will be intact. There may be tears but not missing pages. Overall useable but only with care.
F (Fair) - Item may be missing box or cover. Pages may be torn or even missing a few. Generally pretty rough condition. Only the rarest items will be listed in this condition.
P (Poor) - Recognisable as what it once was but badly damaged. Again only the rarest items will be listed in this condition.
The grading of items is a very subjective field and the grading we give is our impression only. We will try to highlight specific problems either in the pictures used or the item description, so please study the images provided and feel free to ask for more detail. We try to be very honest in our grading but we cannot check every page of every book and inevitably we will miss something somewhere - if this is the case for your purchase please get in touch, with photographs, and we will do our best to come to a mutually agreeable solution.
***Thank you for Looking - Gifts4Geeks***