Burgos Justice

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1938., 1938. First American edition (so stated). 8vo. Translated by W. Horsfall Carter. One page foreword by Elliot Paul. Dust jacket (unclipped; back faded). Else very good. 241 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Constable & Co, 1938. x, 258p., first British edition brown cloth boards gilt in dj; jacket rather shelfworn with a small loss mid-spine panel. This copy bears a Paramount Pictures Inc rubberstamp that requests "Return to Story Dept." The author, an early supporter of the Nationalist cause and its Commissioner of Justice in Burgos, became revolted by the… Read more

London, Constable & Co., 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 258 pages; Description: x, 258 p. 19 cm. Subjects: Spain --History --Civil War, 1936-1939. Burgos (Spain) --History.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. 241p., first American edition cloth boards in dj; review copy with worn slip laid in, along with a printed note from the publisher responding to accusations by a British peer that Vilaplana lied about his recent past. Bright casebinding, but the jacket is badly foxed, may be a "marriage." The author, an early… Read more

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. 241p., first American edition cloth boards in dj, contains a laid-in printed note from the publisher responding to accusations by a British peer that Vilaplana lied about his recent past. Minute frayed spot at head; pervasive damp has stained the jacket, faintly affected cloth, and must have contributed to considerable browning of paperstock.… Read more