[Rarebooks] FS: American Sportswriter's Road Trip Through the Balkans in 1931

[Bob Petrilla]

McGeehan, W.O. TROUBLE IN THE BALKANS. With Drawings by Jules Halfant. NY:
Lincoln MacVeagh/Dial Press, 1931. First Edition. 304pp; text illus from
drawings; spine tanned.  7.75" x 5" Very Good. Original Cloth.
The famous sportswriter for the New York Herald-Tribune recounts his 1931
automobile journey through the Balkans and Europe prior to World War II. He
visits "Jugoslavia" (Serbia, Croatia, and Montenegro), Albania, Turkey
(Istanbul), Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia as well as Greece, Italy,
Austria, Germany and France. Sports metaphors and references abound,
including McGeehan's famous description of boxing as "the manly art of
modified murder" (in a chapter on French boxing matches).     $75.00

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