The Prosecutor and The Prey. Vyshnsky and the 1930s Moscow Show Trials.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990. [Political history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.375. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, red endpapers, photographic dust-jacket. Illustrated with a suite of photographic plates. Gift inscription and ownership signature of bibliographer Jon Gilbert. A history of the Stalinist show trials; as a young Reuters journalist, the future James Bond novelist travelled to Moscow to cover the trial of six Vickers employees suspected of sabotage. From the comprehensive bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with pencil ownership within. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #66850
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