DAVIES, Brigadier 'Trotsky'. Illyrian Venture. The Story Of The British Military Mission to Enemy-Occupied Albania 1943-44. London, The Bodley Head, [1952].
8vo. Original boards with illustrareted dust-wrappers (mot price-clipped); pp. 246, [2], sketch map, one tinted plate and others after photographs; apart from toning to papers, as ususal; an excellent copy of a scarce work.
First edition The British operative was finally hunted down by the Nazis. 'The typescript reached the publisher on the same day that Trotsky died' (insiderear flap).
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