1956. No Edition Remarks. 750 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs and maps. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Some page corners folded. Half-title page with small tear. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces.