1956. First Edition. 285 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt to spine. Maps across endpapers. Black and white photographic plates throughout and similar frontispiece. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages bright with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Binding slightly slack. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some bumping and fraying of corners, tanning and marking. Some small holes in back board. Spine crushed top and bottom and tanned and sunned. Gilt lettering is heavily dulled.