1942. Third Edition. 438 pages. Signed by the author. Grey dust jacket over black cloth. Edited by W.W. Coole and M.F. Potter. Foreword by Lord Vansittart. Inscribed by the author with dedication to 'Miss Kingsley, London - Feb 1942'. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Binding is shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Red mark to rear panel. Minor dark marking overall.