Secrets of the O.G.P.U. - The Plot Against the World. This item is unavailable.Secrets of the O.G.P.U. - The Plot Against the World

1933. First UK edition. vi, 301pp., and 4 black and white illustrations. Essad-Bey was a pen name of Lev Nussimbaum (1905-1942), a writer and journalist, born in Kiev to a Jewish family. He lived there and in Baku during his childhood before fleeing the Bolsheviks in 1920 at the age of 14. In 1922 he claimed that he had converted to Islam. He created a niche for himself in the competitive European literary world by writing about topics that Westerners, in general, knew little about - the Caucasus, the Russian Empire, the Bolshevik Revolution, newly discovered oil, and Islam. This is his work on the origins, founding and development of the O.G.P.U., the intelligence and state security service and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934. The book is bound in the original black cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in good to very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling and light staining on the boards. The bottom corners are lightly bumped and the spine ends are more heavily bumped with a little damage to the cloth. The spine has patchy fading and the titling is worn. The contents are tight and clean with light foxing to the first few pages and fore edge of the text block. A name, address and date has been written on the front free endpaper.…