Roumania In Light & Shadow By Ethel Greening Pantazzi 1921 Large Hc

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Seller: tmc782 ✉️ (4,180) 100%, Location: Clinton, New York, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 176143526644 ROUMANIA IN LIGHT & SHADOW BY ETHEL GREENING PANTAZZI 1921 LARGE HC.

ROUMANIA IN LIGHT & SHADOW BY ETHEL GREENING PANTAZZI 1921 LARGE HC.   I am pleased to offer a book about Roumania written during World War I by an expatriate Canadian woman married to a local elite.  The book is titled: “Roumania in Light and Shadow” by Ethel Greening Pantazzi.  I was unable to find any copies of this rare book online (except print-on-demand versions). 

Fortunately, I found some background on the Author a portion of which I excerpt below: “ Born on June 19, 1880, in Hamilton, Ontario, ETHEL GREENING was the first of five children born to Thomas Benjamin Greening and Jane Sharp, English immigrants settled in the British colony across the Atlantic. In 1908 she met Vasile Pantazzi, captain of the port of Galati, who was to be her husband and thanks to whom she would arrive in Romania. The wedding of the two takes place in 1909, and the Pantazzi family remains in the Danube port for seven years, a bright period, which Ethel paints in her diary in the most vivid colors. In the spring of 1916, Ethel moved with her family to Bucharest, where Vasile Pantazzi, now with the rank of commander, occupied the post of director of the II Marine Directorate. During World War I, the Pantazzi family took refuge in Iasi and then Odessa. During this time, Ethel diligently writes in her diary daily impressions about the fate of Romania, the course of the war, the new power established in Russia after the revolution of 1917.  She has providential meetings, such as that with Colonel Joseph Boyle, with whom she plans to rescue the commander and an entire crew from the Bolsheviks. After the war, Vasile Pantazzi is delegated to one of the commissions convened at the Peace Conference that began in the French capital, and Ethel arrives in the City of Lights exactly a decade after the wedding (March 1919), thus symbolically ending, perhaps, the diary.”

This very rare large-sized hard cover book (7 x 8 ¾ inches 280 pages plus 8 pages of publisher’s adverts) was published by T. Fisher Unwin of London dated 1921 and I believe this is the First Printing (only printing probably given the book’s scarcity) of the First Edition.  The book is bound in black ribbed cloth with embossed framing and a monogram on the cover and gilt titles on the spine.  Please see the photos of the Table of Contents and the List of Illustrations which includes the Frontispiece portrait of the Author and 24 other vintage b&w photos and one sketch map of Roumania .  FYI- all the illustrations are present; I personally checked.  Even the fe de erratas is still laid-in.

Condition:   This book is in good condition.  The hard covers are a bit rubbed and bumped especially at the top & bottom of the spine where some fraying has begun (please see the photos).  Inside the book is unmarked and the pages and photos are clean and bright with a few instances of rare foxing on the glossy paper of the plates- the worst being on the title page cum frontispiece.  Both hinges are cracked and the binding is shaken but all the pages and plates are present.  This book is not ex-library or a remainder.

Shipping :  This book will be very carefully packed, with bubble wrap and with solid cardboard for their protection and promptly mailed upon payment.  Please note that I do not charge for packing and handling; all you pay is the postage.  Media mail postage for this large-sized hard cover book will be only $5.00 .  Within the US for domestic mailings, combined shipping for multiple purchases is gladly offered. 

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  • Condition: This book is in good condition. The hard covers are a bit rubbed and bumped especially at the top & bottom of the spine where some fraying has begun (please see the photos). Inside the book is unmarked and the pages and photos are clean and bright with a few instances of rare foxing on the glossy paper of the plates- the worst being on the title page cum frontispiece. Both hinges are cracked and the binding is shaken but all the pages and plates are present. This book is not ex-library or a remainder.
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
  • Author: Ethel Greening Pantazzi
  • Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
  • Topic: World War I in Roumania
  • Subject: History
  • Original/Facsimile: Original

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