The jacket has loss to the head of the spine, and has a tear at the front's head head and a longer one running along the back. Both been repaired on the inside using sticky tape. The edges are chipped. and its not pretty. The body of the book is clean and solid. Includes a gift inscription to Hugh Sawrey, Australian artist and the founder of the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame, Longreach. "Ursula Hoff AO OBE - Australian scholar, academic, curator, writer, critic, and lecturer; Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; London Adviser of the Felton Bequest; author of numerous books, catalogues, articles, reviews, and scholarly publications on art." (Wikipedia) "The book contains 32 hand mounted colour reproductions of Charles Conder's best paintings, supplemented by many reproductions in nblack and white. A listing of Conder's work in Australian public collections accompanies a catalogueb of his Australian works and representative later works." (front flap)