1952. First Edition. 317 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Maps across endpapers. Black and white illustrations throughout by author. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is very heavily dulled. Some additional marks and staining. Boards are slightly bowed.