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Sixth printing of the true first edition, published in 1946. The book was first published in Feb. 1942, and reprinted in 1942, 1943 & 1944 before this printing. With numerous monochrome illustrations. ***Vol. I: Very good in bottle-green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. No bumps. Corners sharp. Green top edge of text-block is faded. Bottle-green boards are marked [please see scans]. Black & red map-illustrated front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. No inscriptions. Pages clean. No offsetting to the endpapers. No foxing to interior pages. No tears. Spine tight. Please note there is some splitting to the paper at the front hinge, which is still holding OK. ***In a very good buff-coloured, black & red printed dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 42s. net for the set. Edges of dustwrapper creased and rubbed, with some loss to the head and tail of the spine of the dustwrapper, and slight loss at the corner tips. Red titles on spine very slight faded. Red titles to front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright. 224mm x178mm. 653 pages. ***Vol. II: Very good in bottle-green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. No bumps. Corners sharp. Green top edge of text-block is faded. Bottle-green boards are marked [please see scans]. Black & red map-illustrated front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. No inscriptions. Pages clean. No offsetting to the endpapers. No foxing to interior pages. No tears. Spine tight. Hinges fine. Spine tight. ***In a very good buff-coloured, black & red printed dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 42s. net for the set. Edges of dustwrapper just slightly creased and rubbed, with very slight loss to the head and tail of the spine of the dustwrapper. Some patches of rubbing and fading to the spine of the dustwrapper, and the red titles on the spine are very slight faded. Red titles to front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright. 224mm x178mm. 586 pages including bibliographical note and index to the two volumes to the rear. ***'The writing of this two-volume work has occupied Miss West's time for five years. In 1936 Miss West went, under the auspices of the British Council, to lecture in Yugoslavia, and was immediately attracted by the beauty of the land, its brilliantly intelligent and profoundly poetic people, its complex and racial problems, and its dramatic history. She returned to Yugolsavia in the Spring of 1937 and for two months travelled through the country. In the diary she kept during this period, supplemented by notes made on a later and longer visit, she has based a work that is half a picturesque travel book, half a serious study of the tangled history of the South Slav peoples, and its relation to the destiny of Europe. ***A vivid picture is drawn of Yugoslavia in the immediate pre-war days, a picture that is colourful, amusing, surprising in its revelation of little known facts about the people of that country; but through the book there marches to its end the sober exposition of its historical theme. This demonstrates that the East End of London would not now be in ruins if the Balkan Christian powers had not been defeated by the Turks in 1389, for the Ottoman Empire could not rule the territory it thus acquired, steadily weakened it through the centuries, and finally had to relinquish it; and one of the main causes for dissension among the Great Powers has been their greed for the Balkan Peninsula, not only for itself, but as a stepping-stone towards the conquest of India. ***Miss West describes many familiar historical passages in a fresh light. There is a full account of the Sarajevo conspiracy to murder the Archduke Franz Ferdinand including a long conversation with the sister of one of the conspirators which most English readers will find a surprising revelation.' (Quoted from dustwrapper). ***A nice early post-war edition of this classic work. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7488
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