The spine strip is missing and the covers chipped, the back one badly, it's an aesthetic rather than a structural problem. The body of the book is in excellent condiotion, clean, unmarked and solid. A very good copy in poor boards. "The Pensées ("Thoughts") is a collection of fragments on theology and philosophy written by 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. The Pensées represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion. The concept of "Pascal's Wager" stems from a portion of this work" (Wikipedia)