Nancy Cox Mccormack Preface (1 results)
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Published by Small, Maynard and Co (1925), Boston, 1925
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First American Edition. First printing. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 195pp. Hairline crack to front hinge (holding strong), else clean, tight and unmarked in the original publisher's cloth; Very Good or better. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, all four corners clipped by publisher, priced $2.00 on front flap. Rubbe…d and slightly edgeworn, with losses at margins (not affecting printed area); Good or better. The first printing in English of any of Mussolini's memoirs, these written while he was a soldier in the enlisted ranks of the Italian Army during WW1, long before he had adopted his Fascist ideology and persona. An expanded version was published by Scribner's in 1928, but the current edition is decidedly uncommon, especially in dustwrapper.
