THE MIND OF AN ASSASSIN.
by Levine, Isaac Don
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good only in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine (some staining to front cover), no dust jacket./red cloth with gilt lettering on spine (some staining to front cover), no
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About This Item
London:: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, (1959). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Good only in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine (some staining to front cover), no dust jacket.. First edition. Written shortly before his scheduled release from prison in Mexico (after serving a 20 year sentence), this is an account of the life and psychology of Leon Trotsky's assassin, Russian agent Ramon Mercader (also known as Jacques Monard.) Based partly on interviews with the assassin conducted by Alfonso Quiroz Cuaron, the psychologist for the Mexican Dept of Justice. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to Herschel Williams (presumably the Medal of Honor winner) with the comment "With memories of the days when one had faith in the struggle for liberty" and signed Don and dated in 1960 in Mexico City. Sources and Notes, index. xvii, 236 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72897
- Title
- THE MIND OF AN ASSASSIN.
- Author
- Levine, Isaac Don
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good only in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine (some staining to front cover), no dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- red cloth with gilt lettering on spine (some staining to front cover), no
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- (1959)
- Keywords
- trotsky, mexico, communists,
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- History: World;
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