School Dictators, First Edition (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Jacket has minor shelfwear. Stated first edition--but true first was published by Harper & Brothers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. First edition thus (rewritten with an explanatory preface). Review copy, with publisher's slip loosely inserted. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13.5cm, 244pp. Silone's powerful anti-Fascist satire. First published in 1939, the book is in the form of a dialogue and reveals how a dictatorship works and its anatomy; it exposes the tricks and violence that can threaten freedom, rights and even democracy itself. Whilst written in the context of Nazism and Fascism, "it was primarily concerned with the immediate need of defending democracy. Thus, while offering a critique of the Fascist and Nazi ideologies, it also attempted to expose their falsification of history and to define the social factors which facilitate totalitarian enterprises in the present age." Condition: The book is in good sound condition with some tanning to the page edges. The dustwrapper is tanned to the spine and edges with some chipping along the edges and spine ends but has not been price-clipped and is now within a protective sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Interior pages unmarked. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First British Edition. Translated from the Italian by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher. 303 pp. With very light foxing. White endpapers, with previous owner's long inscription on ffep. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Corners bumped. Beige DJ, not price-clipped. Darkened spine, stains, wear along the edges. VG/VG-. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sm.8° - The School of Dictators by Ignazio Silone (1900-1978) Secondino Tranquilli, known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone, was an Italian political leader, novelist, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-fascist novels. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature ten times. First edition Italian and Foreign writers. Original binding and dust-jacket. In Very good condition.