There is minor foxing to the inside front cover and fep otherwise the inside pages are crisp and clean with tight binding. There is fading to the edges of the cloth cover and slight bumping to the corners. Creasing and rubbing on dust jacket and one closed tear (see photo), otherwise in very good condition.Interesting and evocative mid-1940\'s comparison of the Soviet Union and the British Empire, illustrated with 32 b/w reproductions of photographs as well as 14 Isotype charts in colour, some on double pages. Maurice Lovell, the author, deals with the major influences of circumstance and history which shaped the Russian and British Peoples. The author was for 12 years a correspondent for Reuters in London and over a great part of Europe. A rare specimen in very good condition. 8vo. 64pp. Illustrated blue cloth with original pictorial dust jacket.