1st Edition. Blue boards with gold lettering to the spine. Fading blue top stain. Map end papers. Light bumping to the top of the spine. Neat gift inscription in ink to the half title page, a further hand written letter accompanies this. Black and white frontispiece of John Pinney. Glazed pictorial unclipped dust jacket with chipping and wear to the edges and corners, now in a removable protective clear sleeve. In addition included at the rear is a typed essay. with some annotations, on the author by Isaiah Berlin, Balliol College Record 1958. No further inscriptions, 374pp, clean and bright pages with black and white illustrations throughout. (Any digital image available on request).