VETLINA, Vera. Krimskie puteshestvia. [Moscow, "Molodaia Gvardia", 1955.
8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ornamented in green and gilt, front cover lettered in gilt and with mounted colour illustrations, ornamented endpapers; pp. 389, [3], sketch maps and illustrations after drawings in the text, plates in colour and black and white, folding map in black and yellow at rear; binding a little rubbed, internally very clean and fresh.
First edition. Not only a tourist guide book pointing out the beauty and Spas of the peninsula, before it was given to Ukraine, but a thorough monograph dealing with the economy, topography and geology, agriculture, communication and fishing after the devastations of the Second World War. - Rather rare now, despite the print run of 50,000.
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