[Turkey Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

The Old Turkey And The New: From Byzantium to Ankara. Two Volumes.

Second Edition. [This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Geoffrey Bles, 1955. 22,5 cm x 15 cm. IX, 233 pages. The published version: Hardcover with dustjacket / The Proofcopy with annotations: disbound. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. With interesting manuscript comments in the chapter dealing with Turkey’s incorporation into NATO as well as annotations on page 227 about Turkish patriotism by the Turks of Cyprus. Loosely inserted is also an interesting Review-clipping from the TLS in which Harry Luke’s publication “The Old Turkey and the New” is mentioned in the criqiue of Bernard Lewis’ “The Emergence of Modern Turkey”.

This is a correction copy used by Harry Charles Luke.
Comes with the finished copy of the book where you can see the corrections have already been made. (Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar; XI, 243 pages, 11 illustrations) This copy has a piece of a newspaper about books on Turkey. It also has some annotations about pages and plates of the finished book.

• Keywords: British Colonial Administration · British Colonial History · British Foreign Office · British Foreign Policy · Cyprus · Cyprus Content (Manuscript Annotations) · Cyprus Content (Printed Chapters) · Cyprus Content / Sir Harry Luke Collection · Harry Luke – Turkey (1919 – 1920) · Sir Harry Luke · Sir Harry Luke – Personal Archive of Books and Correspondence · Sir Harry Luke Collection · Turkey · Turkey – Anatolia Content / Sir Harry Luke Collection · Turkish History
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 30127AB

EUR 275.000,--