New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. 12mo. Green cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 286pp. Map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild bit of slight jacket edgewear. Scarce first U.S. edition of this volume in editor A.L. Rowse's "Teach Yourself History Library" series. First published by London's Hodder & Stoughton in1948, the U.S. edition is extremely uncommon.