1953. Third Impression. 192 pages. Laminated pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Maps across endpapers. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces. Book has slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine.