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Cassavetti, D. J.
Hellas and the Balkan Wars.
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin, London;
Date of Publication: 1914
Stock Code: 15426
First edition. Octavo, pp., xv, [1], 368, plus 10 maps and 74 plates, as called for. Publisher’s navy cloth with library modifications; titles and shelf-mark in gilt to spine; Paddington library stamps in gilt and blind to upper board; white end-papers. ‘Presentation copy’ stamped in blind to title-page; bookplate of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (partially scraped) to front paste-down; library stamp of the National Service League in ink to front free end-paper; Paddington library stamps to title-page and frontispiece; library call numbers and other historic notes related to acquisition in pencil to end-papers. Nicks to head of spine; corners softened and a touch rubbed; finger-marks and a spot of soiling to cloth. Very occasional spotting internally; small hole to tissue-guard on frontispiece. A solid, square copy. An uncommon work on the Balkan Wars (1912-13), the series of conflicts which would ultimately lead to the First World War. The work focuses on Greece’s struggles against their Ottoman colonisers. This is the former Chatham House copy, and was no doubt consulted by members of the international affairs think tank where it once resided. £125.00