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BALKAN ODYSSEY (SIGNED COPY)
by DAVID OWEN
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0575062517
- ISBN 13
- 9780575062511
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: VICTOR GOLLANCZ, 1995 Black Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 240 x 160 mm approx. xxii + 394 pp. 16 pp of b/w photo plates + 14 line maps. First Edition 1995 signed by Dr David Owen in ink to the title page with no other previous owner name or insc. See our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Dust Jacket - 2 cm approx perforation/ tear to gutter of front, non price clipped - cover £20, no notable shelf rubbing. Book- slight compression mark in gutter from the damage to d/j as above, author signature to title as above. No other defects to book or jacket ). Please state when placing order if you would wish that a removable proprietary protective sleeve be fitted.
Synopsis
An invaluable first-hand account of diplomatic efforts to halt ethnic cleansing and civil war in the former Yugoslavia-by the former British Member of Parliament who headed the international mediation effort from 1992 to 1995.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130970
- Title
- BALKAN ODYSSEY (SIGNED COPY)
- Author
- DAVID OWEN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0575062517
- ISBN 13
- 9780575062511
- Publisher
- VICTOR GOLLANCZ
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Balkan Odyssey, David Owen Signed Books, The Balkan War Slobodan Milosevic, Ratko Mladic, Bill Clinton, Ibrahim Rugova, Cyrus Vance, Vladislav Jovanovic, Stjepan Kljujic, Colin Powell, Peter Carrington,
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