II: Very good in bottle-green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Red titles to front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright. Edges of dustwrapper creased and rubbed, with some loss to the head and tail of the spine of the dustwrapper, and slight loss at the corner tips. ***In a very good buff-coloured, black & red printed dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 42s. Please note there is some splitting to the paper at the front hinge, which is still holding OK. Black & red map-illustrated front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. I: Very good in bottle-green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Sixth printing of the true first edition, published in 1946.
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