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Book Condition: Used Good
Jacket condition: No Jacket
Seller: Charity Bookstall

United States
About Item: New York: George Braziller, Inc, 1958. Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre Translated by John Calder. 8vo size hardcover with blue marbleized boards over black cloth spine with blue titles; 123 pages. No dust jacket. From preface: "This book is an account of (the author's) detention... He was the editor of the Alger Republicain...banned in ...1955...arrested by paratroops (in June 1957) who kept him (in detention) for a whole month." Last page of the book is a reproduction of a letter signed by Sartre and others protesting against the seizure of Alleg's book. Edgewear; some tanning to inner seam of endpapers/inside covers from the adhesive used in the production process; owner's embossed stamp on fep and address label on rep. Our first photograph shows the title page. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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