1942. Ninth printing. 1049 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs. Maps across endpapers. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding slightly loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Some additional mild marks and staining.