London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,488, red cloth lettered in black, b/w frontispiece portrait, 53 b/w maps plus endpaper maps; sunning to upper edges of boards, light partial sunning/mottling to boards, overall a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has chipping with small areas of loss to extremities, as well as creasing and closed tears - good(+), and now in a protective cover.