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Durham, [Mary Edith].
Some Tribal Origins Customs and Laws of the Balkans.
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1928
Stock Code: 15386
First edition. Octavo, pp., [4], 318, [2] of publisher’s advertisements, plus photographic frontispiece, 10 photographic plates, and 22 illustrations within text, as called for. Publisher’s original blue cloth; titled in gilt to spine; white end-papers in the original buff paper jacket, printed in blue. Leaves from Bernard Newman’s ‘Albanian Journey’ (1931) loosely inserted. Jacket price-clipped; tear and loss to head of spine panel; chips to corners and foot of upper panel. Cloth clean and bright. Foxing to fore-edge otherwise clean and in good order. A very good copy in good jacket. A detailed anthropological study of the Balkans by an Albanophile author. Durham began her travels in the Balkans at the turn of the twentieth century, travelling on horseback onto untracked routes in the Albanian mountains. She advocated tirelessly for the Albanian cause, founding the Anglo-Albanian society and writing frequently on the plight of the Albanian people. A scarce book, especially so in the original 1928 dust-jacket. £125.00