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Very Good jacket. Signed. First Edition. 1st edition; INSCRIBED COPY; inscribed by the author, Carlos Thompson, on the dedication page. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Used with NO markings in text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
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First Limited Signed Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp.461. Historical research into a WW2 allegation of Churchill's possible involvement in the "political murder" of General Wladislaw Sikorski, Minister President of Poland. Limited signed edition. Signed presentation from the author: "Here it is, dear Victor, rubrica and all, affectionately as ever, Charley." Postscript note on two loosely inserted photocopied documents: copy of the 'Judicial Oath' signed in Gibralter in 1942 by Arthur Charles Carrera; & press clipping from the Official Gazette, Gibralter 1943. Original publisher's textured black boards with clear gilt lettering at spine. From the library of Victor Spinetti (1929 &endash; 2012) Welsh comedy actor, author, poet and raconteur. He appeared in dozens of films and stage plays throughout his 50-year career and is best remembered today for appearing in the three Beatles films in the 1960s, A Hard Day's Night, Help! and Magical Mystery Tour. Very good indeed in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly creased at edges.
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Special edition publication, limited to 50 copies, signed and numbered. This is copy number 5, and is flat signed by the author on the limited edition / copy number page. The pages are clean and crisp, in like new condition, with no bent corners. Boards are solid, and the spine is square and tight. Limited edition appears to have been produced with a production error, and the index is separated from the binding. The dust jacket has minor shelf wear, but otherwise the book is in near like new condition with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
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First edition, signed limited issue of the author's in-depth investigation into the allegations put forth in Rolf Hochhuth's 'Soldiers, An obituary for Geneva' (1967). Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. One of a limited number of copies signed by the author on the dedication page. In fine condition. Thompson conducted the thorough investigation contained in The Assassination of Winston Churchill in response to the allegations claimed in Rolf Hochhuth in his 1967 play 'Soldiers, An obituary for Geneva, ' in which he suggested that Winston Churchill was responsible for the death of the Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile, General Władysław Sikorski, in an airplane crash in 1943, contradicting the official version of events as an accident, and implying that General Sikorski had been murdered on Churchill's orders.
