Mussolini

1925 · réf. 85671 — Boston: Small Maynard and Co 1925. 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. Rubbed 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. Small, Maynard and Co unknown