Rebecca West. BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA. New York: The Viking Press, 1941. 2 vols. (complete). First American edition. Hardcover. In black cloth-covered boards with color pictorial image pasted on upper board, gilt title on spine, top edge stained blue, map endpapers; in pictorial jacket, in original pictorial slipcase. 8vo; 629; 633-1181pp. with index. Numerous b&w plates.

Each volume 9 1/2 x 6 1/2; DOA 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.

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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon focuses on West's journeys through Yugoslavia in 1936 and 1937. "This monumental work, an adventure through time as well as space by one of the most brilliant women writing English today, probably has no counterpart in the whole of literature." (from book jacket)

Boards with light marks, wear at head and tail of spine with gilt rubbed on vol. 2, corners of vol. 1 slightly bumped, slight separation from text block; edges and endpapers lightly foxed, vol. 1 with pen mark on fore-edge; slight waviness to plates, one with mark; jackets lightly scuffed with edgewear including light fraying, several closed tears, and small losses, spines toned with evidence of light damp staining, and each with small hole, minor scattered foxing, not price clipped; slipcase scuffed with significant edgewear, paper losses at corners, and (2) small paint stains; very good in about good jackets.