1947. First Edition. 488 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. Black and white maps. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. 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. Some additional moderate marks and staining.