West visited Yugoslavia for the first time in 1936. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics, or culture-with, in fact, any other book-is its unashamed depth of feeling: think The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire crossed with Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Both volumes are near fine in near fine dust jackets that show light shelfwear to the extremities. Both volumes are signed by West with volume one inscribed and dated in 1965 by the author, volume two is signed and dated in 1965. Octavo, 2 volumes, original green cloth, cartographic endpapers. $5,800.00 Item Number: 1495įirst editions of the Rebecca West’s masterpiece. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937.
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