8vo. 284 pp., [1], half-title, 30 b/w plates hors text, 3 maps, publisher’s original wrappers, biblio, index, Talis House Research and Educational Facility stamp on endpapers, title and preface page, otherwise copy clean and in very good condition, from the Nations of The Modern World Series, Ernest Benn Ltd., London, first paperback edition, 1978.