first UK edition
TROTSKY, Leon.
Stalin An Appraisal of the man and his influence. Edited and translated from the Russian by Charles Malamuth.
London, Hollis and Carter, Ltd, 1947.
Trotsky worked on the text between 1938 and 1940, but it was still unfinished at the time of his assassination in August of that year. The surviving manuscript draft was then translated from the Russian by the Trotskyist sympathiser Charles Malamuth, and published following the conclusion of the Second World War.
First UK edition; 8vo (24.5 x 16 cm); text in English, photographic frontispiece and plates, occasional light spotting; half red morocco by Bayntun, red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge gilt, spine very slightly faded, very good; xv, [3], 516pp.
Stock code 125454
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Stalin
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[Romulus and Tarquin].
1637.
The first edition in English of Virgilio Malvezzi's histories of the legendary Roman kings Romulus and Tarquin, translated by Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth
£1,500.00
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History of the Grecian War:
1676.
The final lifetime edition of Thomas Hobbes's English-language translation of Thucydides History of the Grecian War
£3,500.00
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The Letters of the Renowned Father Paul,
1693.
The first edition in English of the collected letters of Paolo Sarpi, translated out of the Italian by Edward Brown
£800.00
[POLEMON, John].
The Second Part of the Booke of Battailes,
1587.
The first edition of this scarce continuation by John Polemon The Second Part of the Book of Battailes, a major sorce for George Peele's The Battle of Alcazar
£3,750.00
