1946. Reprinted. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates throughout. Maps across endpapers. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to rear pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is very heavily dulled. Some additional marks and staining. Book has slight forward lean.