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Thames And Hudson, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 304 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth with gilt lettering. Translated from the Italian 'Mussolini: Piccolo Borghese' by Brigid Maxwell. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Heavier tanning to endpapers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Mild crushing to spine ends. Sunning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing.

London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson , 1953. 1st English edition. Mussolini's government became Prime Minister in 1922 and in the early years were marked by attention to domestic issues rather than foreign policies. With the emerging middle class in post WWI Italy, in Rome this class was mainly composed of civil servants, people with a certain degree of education and the desire to imitate the standard of living of the upper classes, but prevented from doing so by low wages. Fascism was a nationalist and aggressive dictatorship and by the end of the war the Italian people were thoroughly tired of his regime. CONDITION Black cloth (top cnrs a little brused o/w very good) 304 pages with photo illus. Bright and crisp with foxed ends and edges. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Thames & Hudson, London, 1953.. 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 304pp, illustrated, owner's bookplate on front endpaper, 2 cuttings at rear, pages browning, text clean and sound, black cloth, small tear at top of spine, Good condition / no dustwrapper .