Tight, clean, crisp, sharp, flat and square book lacking jacked.  Head and tail with a couple bumps. Stated First edition (printing). Signed on the FFEP, dated 1942. Gluestain. 

Though lacking an inscription, this book came from a sizable estate lot bought at auction. Nearly all the books in the lot were by Adamic, first printings, and were signed: inscribed to either Dr., Mr., or Mrs. Mally and dated. The other books from this series were inscribed. The rest were wartime histories of Yugoslavia. They represented an association of some importance. A bit of research found that Dr. Mally was a local physician of some considerable importance to the Slavic community in Cleveland. He married [Mayor] Frank Lausche's sister, but far more importantly he served as the mid-western Consulate for the exiled Yugoslavian State and received King Peter in 1942. Adamic was, perhaps, the most significant Slavic author of the times--having established himself as a man of letters in the late 1920's.

Mally's offices and home are now known as the Slovenian Hall in the Collinswood area of Cleveland. Adamic was an observer and journalist of the people--whatever people he focused on. Mally is credited by the Slovenian Geneological Society as having written extensively on the Slovenian people in America.

Adamic was largely supportive of the Communist takeover of his homeland and reformation of Yugoslavia under Marshall Tito. The excised footnote was regarding questionable loan practices involving Churchill and Greece, which lead to a lawsuit. From Wikipedia: