1954. Ninth edition. 324 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour maps throughout. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding 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 slightly dulled. Some moderate marks and staining to surfaces.