The head and tail of the spine strip is damaged with minor loss, the covers' edges are chipped, with a very small section missing from the front and back, top and bottom corner respectively. There's an ownership signature on the tail of the front cover.The first 32 pages have a small stain on the top edge as have pages 95 to the back end paper. The back end paper has a series of small slashes which have not penetrated the page. The book is full of minor faults, but remains basically a good copy, solid and clean. There are a handful of annotations that for me add to the vintage of the book: the dedication on the title page "To George from Sheila, wishing he is now quite well" . On the head of page 1 "read this right through it's good George" and at the bottom of page 100 "Seafaring life is 100 times worse than this Gsf" The handwriting is identical in all 3 inscriptions and the heavy ink has seeped to the verso of the page. The book is the authorised Australian version of Blatchford's experiences in the British army before WWI, though the advertisemnets suggest that this edition was published during the war. 110 pages.