BUMGARDNER, Eugenia S. Undaunted Exiles. Staunton, Virginia, The McLure Company, Inc., 1925.
8vo. Original red buckram, illustrated and lettered in gilt; pp. [viii], 230, plates after photographs; spine with light spotting and a little wear, internally a little toned, otherwise a very good copy.
Uncommon first edition, signed presentation copy, inscribed by the author to one V. N. Kositsin, dated Staunton, 1938. Later collector's stamp G. E. Deatherage to front endpapers. This more or less privately printed book is on life among white Russian exiles in the early 1920s in Istanbul, especially the huge remnants of Wrangel's army and the progressive but exiled members of the Russian Union of Cities. The author, who lived in Staunton, Virginia worked for the Red Cross refugee relief in Istanbul, and encountered many high-ranking exiles.
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