The library damage is limited to the preliminaries and end papers: neat round library stamps, cancelled stamp, date due stamps and a library pocket on the back paste down. The back flap has a triangular piece missing from the back flap, neatly cut out with scissors.Courtesy of the protective mylar, there are remnant sticky tape marks on both paste downs and end papers and there is a small green texta squiggle on the head ofthe front end paper coveringwhat looks like a price. Internally the book is immaculate: the date due slip shows that it has been borrowed twice: once on the 27. April 1973, the second time 27 May 1974. On the title page: Recreated by Leon Garfield in consultation with David Proctor. "An account of an early nineteenth-century British naval officer's experiences as a boy sailor serving under Nelson." (Trove)