Soft cover book with minimal shelfware. Light chipping and denting to cover edges, grazing and curling to corners, very light grazing to spine ends. Light scratching and scuffing to front and back covers. Text block edge has light foxing and light smudging. Pages have very very slight age tanning to edges, pages otherwise clean and in good condition throughout book. Overall condition is very good. Illustrated with black-and-white chessboard diagrams throughout book.