![Il Traditore (The Traitor): Benito Mussolini and His "Conquest" of Power [3 Volumes]. Angelica...](/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
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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
![A Soldier Erect; or, Further Adventures of the Hand-Reared Boy [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Brian...](/pictures/thumb/9934.jpg?v=1624376543)
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
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
London: Allan Wingate, 1975. First English Translation. Octavo. 319 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket shows light wear and dampstaining, with some bleeding, to edges, and some general rubbing. Boards with some shelfwear and slightly heavier wear to extremities. Binding is sound..... 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
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
Berlin, Cologne, and New York: Michael Werner Gallery, 2008. First Edition. Tall Quarto (32x24x1cm); partially paginated [104pp total], including bibliography. Fifty-eight full-page plates of paintings and drawings in the exhibition, with many additional color and B&W documentary, reference, and background images; plates include two larger gatefold reproductions. Illustrated card wrappers..... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1979. Second Impression, 1986. Octavo; xiii + 601pp, including 15 appendices (on Polish, French and British co-breaking of the Enigma Code; matériel; documents about methods; Axis planning; chain of command; etc.) and index. Coated black dust jacket; hunter green cloth with gilt spine lettering against..... 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
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; xii, 728pp. Map endpapers. Illustrated red dust jacket over bright red cloth-covered boards with black lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with some bumping and creasing to top back panel and head of spine. Boards square..... 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
Boston? Greater Boston Youth for Brotherhood Council, 1945. First Edition. Small quarto (22cm.); publisher's pink pictorial staple bound wrappers; [4]pp.; printed mimeograph. Shallow chipping along wrapper and text block fore-edge, else Very Good. Rare World War II-era program for this gathering to promote brotherhood and understanding, sponsored by..... 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
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
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