The book is bumped at the tail of the spine and damaged at the bottom of the back cover, with minor loss. There is an ownership signature on the fronte end paper and the pages are tanned. Internally the book is unmarked and the binding solid. From the back cover:"In 1974 Paddy Joe Hill was charged alongside five other men with the biggest mass murder on the British mainland - the Birmingham pub bombings. Arrested and brurtally beaten by members of the est Midlnds serious Crime Squad, Hill was condemned by false scientific evidence. he was deprived of his freedom for 16 years, 3 months and 23 days."