The boards are lightly dust stained, and lightly chipped at the edges.Intermittently throughout the book, the blank outer edge at the head of the page is bumped and lightly creased; the blank tail of pp51 to 54 have a small strip of clear tape as though repairing a closed tear, though no damage is visible; pp59 to 74 carry a damp stain on the head's outer edge, it does not impact the print, but from pp 61 to 66 it's quite loud. The front paste down ahs a neat ownership signature; back one has pencil annotations referencing pages. It all sounds worst than it actually is. A solid copy with aesthetic faults. The 1933 edition is the last edition before Alfred Döblin's books were banned and burnt.