SCHURMAN JACOB GOULD, "The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913", Princeton University Press, 1914. First edition, in 12o, xv+140pp. The author, as US ambassador to Greece, was well placed to observe the regional conflict, which initially pitted the Ottoman Empire against a coalition of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bulgaria; it was a clash which would throw the Empire into crisis and redraw Balkan politics, setting the stage for events that would precipitate the First World War. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth. Fine condition overall.