1953. No edition remarks. 300 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white fold-out maps. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Heavy pencil annotations to maps. Minor inscriptions to front endpapers. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional moderate marks and staining.