1949. Twenty second impression. 244 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Maps across endpapers. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. 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. Some additional marks and staining. Gilt lettering to spine is heavily dulled.