London: Robert Hale, 1944 Red cloth titled in gilt on spine, b&w frontis and illstns. INSCRIBED BY BERNARD NEWMAN ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE. Tight and square, clean boards, faint foxing in edges and endpapers. Dust jacket is unclipped and unfaded but has edge tears, small gaps at spine ends, protected in a fitted clear film sleeve. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Bookseller: Mainly Fiction (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 025868
Title: Balkan Background
Author: NEWMAN, Bernard
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: Robert Hale
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1944
Bookseller catalogs: Travel and Exploration;

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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