1951. First Edition. 440 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs. Maps across endpapers. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Some additional moderate marks and staining.