Angus Cameron Introduction (3 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.

First edition Close to fine tall illustrated glossy stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Beautifully illustrated, often full page color with many detailed images and shots. Informative text throughout.

Full Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full red cloth with gilt lettering on the front conver and the spine. Stamped in large letters "Library Copy Do Not Remove" on the front free endpaper, no other library markings or stampings, jacket is not price clipped but has light wear to the extremtiesi and is slightly scuffed. No previous owner's names. Overall a VERY GOOD book in a VERY GOOD brodart protected dust jacket. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover.