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Londres, Albert.
Terror in the Balkans.
Publisher: Constable & Co. Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1935
Stock Code: 11715
FIRST EDITION in English. Octavo, pp., vi, [2], 244. Publishers’ red cloth with black titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips slightly creased and small bump to fore-edge of lower board; corners lightly rubbed. Gift inscription in ink to front paste-down dated 1944; no further annotation or inscriptions; very light foxing to text-block edge. Jacket nicked & creased with a couple of 3 cm closed tears top edge and very slight loss, and rear white panel lightly surface soiled. A very good copy in like dust-jacket. History of the Komitadji Macedonian revolutionary movement in Bulgaria and neighbouring countries in the years leading up to the Great War by the groundbreaking investigative journalist Albert Londres (1884 – 1932). This was to be the author’s final book as Londres was killed in the fire onboard the MS Georges Philippar. Translated from the French with Appendix by L. Zarine. Rare, but especially so in the original 1935 dust-jacket. £200.00