Through savage Europe. Being the Narrative of a Journey (undertaken as Special Correspondent of the "Westminster Gazette"), throughout the Balkan States and European Russia.
by De Windt, Harry
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Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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London: T. Fisher .Unwin, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. second impression 22.5 cm x 16 cm, 300, + (iv) adverts top edge gilt, portrait frontispiece of De Windt + 100 b/w photographic plates. Some foxing to contents the last page of adverts badly opened with loss to the blank margin. The contents tight contemporary ownership inscription dated 1907 to front end paper.Publishers navy blue cloth gilt title and Cossack vignette to upper board. Some rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and corners, the binding tight with no splits.An account of a journey through the Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro, Servia , Bulgaria, Rumania and Russia in 1907.
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- Bookseller
- Hereward Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 03675
- Title
- Through savage Europe. Being the Narrative of a Journey (undertaken as Special Correspondent of the "Westminster Gazette"), throughout the Balkan States and European Russia.
- Author
- De Windt, Harry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- T. Fisher .Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1907
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