first edition
1941 · New York
by West, Rebecca
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First American Edition. First American edition. [x], 629; [v], [630]-1181 pp. Two volumes bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering, illustrations mounted on front boards, blue topstains; housed in publisher's slipcase. Very Good with rear hinge of Vol. I cracked but holding, corner crease to bottom of four pages towards end. Rubbing to spine lettering of Vol. II, production flaw to p. 633 with tear at corner. In Very Good price-clipped dust jackets, spine panels lightly worn and toned. Wear to extremities of slipcase. A critically-acclaimed travelogue of a six week trip through Yugoslavia in 1937.
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