Book is new, but it is defective. The last 61 pages are cut short, leaving the last line cut off on the majority of them. There are some still bound together at the top, but can easily be separated. I didn’t want to go through and risk tearing anything. I wasn’t going to sell this, but I figured there’s probably somebody out there who hates holding hardback books as much as I do and would be glad to have it. The first 1267 pages are normal. Last picture is to show the book next to the rest of the paperbacks in the series.