The Eastern Question: An Historical Study in European Diplomacy (Fourth Edition)
by MARRIOTT, Sir John A. R
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0198215088
- ISBN 13
- 9780198215080
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London: Oxford University Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. 0198215088 . A 1967 reprint of the fourth edition (1940); first published in 1917. Sir John Marriott provides a guide to the politics, history and peoples of eastern Europe and Asia Minor. Per Lord Morley, the area comprised of Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia eastward through Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey as ". . . that shifting, intractable, and interwoven tangle of conflicting interests, rival peoples and antagonistic faiths. . ." With 11 maps, some of which fold out; extensive index and other back matter. --- In full navy cloth-covered boards with spine titling, horizontal rules and publisher device in gilt to spine. Volume wrapped in simple cream-colored jacket. --- Discreet penciled notations rather frequently found on several leaves & prior owner's inked signature to front free endpaper, else a tightly-bound, bright, well-preserved copy. Dust jacket with chipping and small tears along edges, retailer's sticker to front flap and adhesive traces to front panel, otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xii, 602 pages .
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- Title
- The Eastern Question: An Historical Study in European Diplomacy (Fourth Edition)
- Author
- MARRIOTT, Sir John A. R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0198215088
- ISBN 13
- 9780198215080
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1967
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- 0198215088
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