Albert E Kahn Introduction (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Moyer Bell Limited, Published 1987. Hardcover, xx, 308 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition. In Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine show light surface and edge wear, and mild shelf wear. Binding is tight. Mild foxing to edges of text block, otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket (1955 Biltmore Hotel press-conference photograph of Kahn, Matusow, and Cameron) has a few small nicks, creasing to edges, and mild foxing to verso. Original $18.95 price intact on front flap. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. During the McCarthy era, Harvey Matusow was a paid government witness for the Justice Department, HUAC, and Senator Joseph McCarthy, testifying against trade unions, teachers, musicians, and performers. In 1955, appalled at the damage done, he recanted in the book False Witness, published by Cameron and Kahn, themselves earlier victims of the blacklist. The Justice Department answered with a federal grand jury subpoena demanding all materials relating to the book. Kahn's memoir, written in the late 1950s but unpublishable for decades, recounts the recantation and the government's attempt to suppress it. Introduction by Angus Cameron, former editor-in-chief of Little, Brown. With appendices, notes, and index. Contents: The Informer; Enter Matusow; The Story Unfolds; Birth of a Book; Before the Storm; Major Explosions; First Encounter; Scales of Justice; Fact and Fiction; Judgment on the Hill; Tale of Two Cities; Off the Press; The Matter of Bail; Crosscurrents; Signs of Summer; Across the Land; Crime and Punishment; Finale; Epilogue; Appendices A-D; Notes; Index.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Former owner information on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing. 236 pp. Original purple cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly soiled; spine ends a bit bumped. Front inner hinge tender. Neat ink inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear and three short tears at top edges (two on front, one on rear). Approx. 4 1/4" closed tear at top edge of front panel near spine. Price clipped. Illust. w/ numerous b/w photos.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Edition Thus, 1946, no additional printings stated, cover reads "New Complete and Unabridged Edition". Very Good, wrappers light wear and soiling, faint corner crease bottom corner rear cover, text uniform light browning. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Reprint. [6], 154 p. Index. "In a thoroughly documented story that reads with the pace of a thrilling novel, the authors reveal for the first time the record of international intrigue against Soviet Russia since the Revolution of 1917 up to the present minute. It is a sensational story filled with spies, saboteurs and assassins. This is the great conspiracy which has already cost the lives of millions; which caused World War II and now threatens to plunge the world into another war." - back cover. Unmarked. Very heavily worn with chunks missing from title page and front cover. Binding intact. A worthy vintage reading copy. Seidman S22, Kolarz [2] p. 153, Smele 2735. ; 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall; soviet union - history, conspiracy, Russian revolution,