The Campaign in Thrace, 1912: Six Lectures

First edition, first impression. xii, 164pp, with foldout map loosely laid in of the Balkan Peninsula) and five foldout maps bound in.  Red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on front and spine.  8vo. Cloth covers are worn, rounded on corners and spine ends, with heavy mottled marks scattered around the spine.  Text block edges dull and spotted.  First and last few leaves a little toned and spotted, especially the free endpapers.  Pencil inscription on the front free endpaper, else neat, clean and tight.

The text of six lectures on the Campaign in Thrace – part of the first Balkan War – given by Major Philip Howell at the Staff College in Camberley in 1913, shortly after his return from the headquarters of the Bulgarian Army and the battlefields of Thrace during the pause between the first and second phases of the war.  Hard to find original edition.