The pages of the story itself are unmarked but have that weird uneven edge to them (came like that originally) but it doesn’t ruin the ability to read the story. However the previous owner had gotten either paint or whiteout spilled on the back of it. I tried to clean it the best that I could but not all of it came off. The slip cover is also missing. Synopsis: The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti- mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence. Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, kidnapped and made a “blood god” by the Druids, Marius becomes the embittered protector of Akasha and Enkil, Queen and King of the vampires, in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. We follow him through his heartbreaking abandonment of the vampire Pandora. Through him we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine and the horrific sack of the Eternal City itself at the hands of the Visigoths. I received this used, there was paint or whiteout on the back of the book, some came off but not all. No cover sleeve but the book is still in good condition otherwise.