How Wars Were Won: A Short Study of Napoleon's Times

Blue cloth; gilt spine lettering. Exterior Fair +, Interior Very Good Minus With numerous maps, including five folding maps and some detailed with positions marked in red and blue. Book form of a course of lectures given to the elder half of the Officers' Training Corps at Harrow, about military strategy. Color photocopy of front panel and spine of dust jacket laid-in. Moderate-to-heavy rubbing to cover extremities, with corners frayed and just worn through to boards. Irregular splotchy faded areas to outer margins of front cover cloth; spine faded; 3"split to cloth at lower front gutter. Few small stains to rear board. Neat prior owner signature to front endpaper. Light erasure scars to two lines of Preface. Title page creased vertically alongside endpaper--appears to be manufacturer gluing defect. Text clean, tight, and only lightly worn.