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Romance of a Dictator by SLOCOMBE George

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Romance of a Dictator
Author
SLOCOMBE George
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1932. First Edition. (MUSSOLINI) SLOCOMBE, George. Romance of a Dictator. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1932. Octavo, original green cloth, original red-, black- and silver-printed dust jacket, original trial dust jacket. $1200.First edition of Slocombe's 1932 novel based on the rise and fascist rule of Mussolini, who the veteran journalist described, in separate reportage the same year, as ""the dean of the world's dictators,"" this copy especially elusive with both the trial dust jacket and the publisher's final original dust jacket with its bold design by Roland Cosimini.British journalist Slocombe based the fictional hero of his Romance of a Dictator on Mussolini, who was interviewed by Slocombe in 1922. On publication, The New York Times praised Slocombe's work, saying: ""this story belongs to our times."" Slocombe's dictator is a ""pure opportunist… of such egocentricity that he cannot serve."" Time magazine also offered early praise for Slocombe's work, declaring that Romance of a Dictator's chilling view of a modern dictatorship ""will intoxicate readers."" In an October 1932 issue of Vanity Fair, published the same year as Romance, Slocombe called Mussolini ""the dean of the world's dictators… [he] contemptuously banished the 'putrescent corpse' of liberty from the Italian Constitution. And this equally explains the emotional, the spiritual, the psychological success of Fascism. It gave Italy a new religion. It gave Italians a new attitude… He remolded them in his own dark image, men of bronze… Mussolini is capable of anything. He has himself publicly laid down the elastic frontiers of his maneuvering ground in the formula, 'Fascism is a perpetual Revolution.'"" First edition, first printing: with publication date on title page, no statement of edition or printing on the copyright page. This distinctive copy contains both the publisher's official dust jacket, and the trial dust jacket titled Dictator. Clute & Nichols, 1117. Book fine; each dust jacket with light edge-wear, closed tear to upper front panel, colorful price-clipped official dust jacket near-fine with bright and vivid design by Cosimini.
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Edward Lear: Drawings and Watercolours

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Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
Title
Edward Lear: Drawings and Watercolours
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9781854440860
Condition
VG: Previous owner's name in ink on the first page, with some bleed onto the inside front cover. No text or image affected. Majo
Description
Oxford: Ashmolean Art Museum, 1995. Staplebound. VG: Previous owner's name in ink on the first page, with some bleed onto the inside front cover. No text or image affected. Majority clean body pages and solid binding.. Glossy color-illustrated wraps. 16 pages; illustrated in both color and black-and-white.
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago by PASTERNAK, Boris

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
Doctor Zhivago
Author
PASTERNAK, Boris
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
(New York): Pantheon, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Endpapers with light offsetting and a small abrasion on rear fly, covers with light spotting, spine ends and corners rubbed and fraying, about very good, lacking the dust jacket. Basis for the 1965 David Lean epic which featured Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Tom Courtenay, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson, and Alec Guinness. The film won five Oscars, and was nominated for five more, including Best Picture.

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