1955. No edition remarks. 438 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white maps. Black and white frontispiece. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Book has slight forward lean.