BAERLEIN, Henry. - Over the Hills of Ruthenia: Cheap Edition.London, Harold Shaylor, 1931. Small 8vo. original blue cloth, lettered gilt with attractive decoration in gilt to upper board. 245pp. A very nice tight and clean copy. Scarce work by Henry Baerlein, prolific writer, often on Eastern Europe, also wrote under the name of Henry Bernard and George Birmingham - "MR. BAERLEIN\'S leisurely account of his equally leisurely journey over the hills and dales and through the fields and forests of Ruthenia is a delicate blend of ironic charm and haphazard literary gypsying among the sturdy and almost illiterate peasant folk and villagers of this obscure little country -- a country bent upon making the most of its recently discovered self-determination." . GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 40 US$ 46.02 | JP¥ 7096] Book number 38560is offered by:
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