1949. Thirty-ninth Edition. 275 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs throughout. Maps across endpapers. 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. All surfaces heavily tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Book has slight backwards lean.