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Phillimore ([Mrs] Lion) In the Carpathians

£375

London, Constable, 1912.

First edition, first impression. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.

A travel narrative of a journey through the Carpathian mountain region, of interest as a pre-First World War account of a part of Central Europe that would soon be radically transformed.

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Toning to free endpapers; cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket a little chipped at head of spine.

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