Author: DURHAM, M. E. (Edith Durham)
Title: The Struggle for Scutari: Turk, Slav, and Albanian. (Balkans). Illustrated by Photographs and Sketches by the Author.
Description: London, Edward Arnold, 1914. Original red cloth, spine lettered gilt, upper board lettered in black. Tissue protected frontispiece, many b/w photos (complete as called for), b/w in-text illustrations, index. Spine somewhat sunned, board edges just a little faded. Clean and tight with very minimal damp spotting to f.e.p. A very nice copy. A very nice copy of this important work on the Balkans. Spine a little sunned, board edges just a little faded. Clean and tight with very minimal damp spotting to f.e.p. Edith Durham, champion of the Albanians whose best known work was "High Albania" here recounts the history of Albania between 1910 and 1914. She describes Serbian and Montenegrin atrocities in Northern Albania and the authoress's relief work there. Bland 519, Young 188, Hetzer & Roman A-0515. Hardback.

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