![Item #5137 Il Traditore (The Traitor): Benito Mussolini and His "Conquest" of Power [3 Volumes]....](/pictures/thumb/5137.jpg?v=1562858998)
New York: Il Traditore, 1943. Three of eight installments, comprising pages 1-32, 66-95, and 162-190 of the total run. Side-stapled paper wraps. In English and Italian. Balabanoff met a young Mussolini at one of her lectures in 1904 and became an early mentor, lending him books and introducing him..... More
![Item #11847 One Step Ahead: A Mother of Seven Escaping Hitler's Claws [Signed]. Avraham Azrieli](/pictures/thumb/11847.jpg?v=1640716072)
Scottsdale: Memoir & Biography, LLC, 1999. First Edition, stated. Signed by the author without inscription on fly leaf, with additional signed, handwritten note laid in: "Marcia -- This copy is for your friend who collects first editions. Avi." Octavo; 234pp. Black and white illustrations and photos. Photo-illustrated dust jacket..... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1971. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket; 272pp. Very minor spine lean, a hint of shelf wear, else a fresh, Very Good to Near Fine copy. Bookplate signed by the author for a private collector laid in. The continued sexual escapes..... More
Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 53pp, augmented with 12 additional unpaginated plates; includes bibliography. In addition to the 12 plates, illustrated throughout with 21 documentary figures embedded in the text. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine with a...... More
![Item #14247 Shadow Over the Land [Inscribed and Twice Signed]. Charles Dwoskin](/pictures/thumb/14247.jpg?v=1664897220)
New York: Beechhurst Press, [1946]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); 285pp. Moderate wear to jacket and cloth extremities including a few shallow chips and closed tears to the former, briefly affecting text at spine ends without loss of meaning, spine a bit..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; xix + 620pp. Graphic dustjacket. over brown cloth with two-color stamping on spine. Price-clipped dustjacket has two 1" chips missing, one at bottom of spine, the other on front face, along with a couple larger tears at top back and couple smaller..... More
Great Neck, NY: G. Alan Chidsey, November 9, 1940. Octavo (9.5” x 6.25”); [60pp]. Dark gray leather with stamped lettering. Covers a bit toned with any gilt or foil to lettering rubbed away. Spine a bit cocked. A handful of the pasted-in columns have let go from the pages, but..... More
London: Frank Cass, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in red photo-illustrated dust jacket; xiv,337pp.; eight leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos, additional maps throughout. A hint of shelf wear, else Near Fine. Forms part of the Cass Series of Soviet (Russian) Military Experience. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. First American Edition (stated). Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); 320pp. Moderate shelf wear and shallow wrinkling to jacket extremities, rear panel a shade yellowed, spine cloth slightly creased and corners bumped, front hinge a bit creaky, else a...... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1958. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Richard Frooman retaining original price ($4.50); xi,[3],274pp. Light chipping to jacket extremities, spine panel a bit toned, corners gently bumped, else Very Good overall. World War II memoir of the future Governor..... More
London: Frederick Muller, 1942. First Edition. Octavo; 279 pp. Photo inserts throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with 12/6 net price intact; book in beige boards with red lettering to spine. Materials obviously in keeping with wartime rationing, as the boards are a bit limp and the paper thin. Jacket shows a...... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1984. First Edition. Octavo; xvi + 693pp, including 27 appendices (on Intelligence structure; U-boats; bombing; air offensive; the Nuremberg raid; etc.) and index. Ten tipped-in fold-out maps or site plans, several in six colors. Coated black dust jacket; hunter green cloth with gilt spine lettering..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1969. Early Printing. Signed by both authors without inscription on half title. Octavo; xi, 272pp. Map endpapers. Printed dust jacket over red and black boards with silver lettering. Price-clipped jacket shows a good-sized dampstain to back panel with some loss to blurb text..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1952. First Edition. Octavo; xii + 490pp, including index. Four maps printed within text. Ocean blue linen with gold lettering on spine and front panel. Spine darkened; some nibbling (?) at spine foot; minimal wear at spine crown. Panel corners and edges politely worn. Textblock unmarred..... More
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2013. First Edition. Octavo. 390 pp. Black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in white. A touch of rubbing to edges of dust jacket and boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1945. First Edition. Small slim octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in white decorative dust jacket printed in blue and black; 78pp. Light foxing to jacket extremities and rear panel, else Near Fine. The English novelist's second attempt at drama, this set in the RAF during..... More
![Item #13260 The Dunwich Horror and Other Weird Tales [Armed Services Edition #730]. H P. Lovecraft](/pictures/thumb/13260.jpg?v=1655481410)
New York: Editions for the Armed Services Inc., / Council on Books in Wartime, [1945]. First Thus. Oblong octavo. 384 pp. Stapled wraps. Wraps worn and creased with curling to corners. Binding is sound. Pages toned and curl at corners, but unmarked. Includes "The Music of..... More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1944. First Edition. Octavo; xii, 155pp. Publisher's blue cloth with light blue lettering to spine. Missing dust jacket. "Generalny Konsulat Ceskoslovenske Republiky, New York" stamp to title page with pen call number written adjacent, but no other library marks or additions. Boards..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket designed by Warren Chappell; [4],187pp. Some chipping to jacket extremities, including short tear at top margin of upper panel just touching text, spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, else Very Good, internally clean..... More
Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 17pp, augmented with two additional inserts of B&W photographs, both of 8pp, for a total of 16 photographic plates. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine, with light edgewear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Octavo. 270 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Beige boards stamped in green and blue. Dust jacket lightly chipped along edges with some moderate general rubbing. Spine toned. Boards bumped at corners with light general..... More
New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1938. Stated First Edition. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Dorothy Frohman / Sincerely / Ilka Chase / Washington, D.C. May 14, 1948." Octavo (21x14x2.5cm); 319pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Gray boards with black and gilt spine stamping. Dust jacket is whole..... More
Chicago: Spertus Museum / Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, 1998. Deluxe Limited Edition, numbered 83 of 400 copies on colophon. Signed by Unger without dedication on title page, with inscription "Szyk's message and legacy is eternal. Irving Ungar, 7 April 1999. Quarto (11.25" x 8"); 95pp. Quarter black..... More
Tokyo: Japan Foreign Trade Federation, 1945. [Printed June 15 & 20, 1945 via Japanese text on copyright.] First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cream pictorial cloth embossed in black and red; [4],239pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, seven leaves of photographic illus., maps and line drawings throughout text. Text in English. Ex-Library of Congress..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1943. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($1.50); xi,[1],158pp. General edge wear to jacket extremities including a few short closed tears never approaching text, corners slightly bumped, contemporary bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, else..... More