1947. Reprinted. 303 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Fold-out map at rear. Black and white photographs. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to rear hinge with netting exposed. Binding slightly loose. Front free endpaper missing. A previous owner's name to rear of frontispiece. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Boards are slightly bowed.