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Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Second amended edition. Small octavo. 128pp. Text in Cyrillic Serbian. Illustrated from cuts, facsimiles, and halftone photographs; cover illustrated with a battle scene. Printed wrappers over stapled textblock. Wrappers faintly foxed, short foredge tear on cover and first leaf, final leaf pulled free of staples (but sound), a very good example of a rather delicate production. An interesting World War I Serbian "war calendar." The calendar takes up the first 16 pages, and the following 100-plus pages are filled with what appear to be poems and war news, illustrated with facsimiles and halftone photographs. The wrappers advertise three Serbian-American businesses: the Serbian steamship agency N.P. Lakich & Co. of New York; Momchilovich Bros. jewelers of St. Louis; and St. Sava, "the first and oldest Serbian bookstore in America," of Steelton, Pennsylvania. We were unable to find much information about the editor and publisher, Plava Leskovac, although it appears that in 1916 he founded *Ratnik u slici i re?i* (*Warrior in Pictures and Words*), then advertised as "the only Serbo-Croatian semi-monthly illustrated magazine in America." An interesting World War I artifact, published in New York, certainly worthy of more study. Although we admit our Serbian isn't flawless, we have been unable to locate another copy.