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ex lib, minimal markings, 278pp, illus, G+ (cocked, sl edge wear, v sl soiled & rubbed) d/w G+ (sl sunning & surface loss to back & spine, creases & wear to extrems, sl soiled & rubbed)

Cloth with dust jacket. Very good copy in very good dust jacket. Jackh was a proponent of pan-Turkism and promoted a German-Turkish alliance before World War I. As a liberal and anti-Nazi he left Germany in 1933 for England and then the US. He ended his career at Columbia University. He was accused by contemporaries of being "more Turkish than the Turks" for his promotion of Turkish ethnic nationalism. [See Wikipedia (Deutsch).]

First Edition thus. The Rising Crescent Turkey yesterday, today, and tomorrow Special Collection by Ernest Jackh. Published by Farrar & Rhinehart, Inc. in 1944. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. Collectible item in very fine condition.