1950. Third Impression. 294 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. With fold-out maps. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Creasing and some small tears to edges of fold-out maps. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Mild tanning to spine and edges.