KELLEY, Douglas M. 22 Cells in Nuremberg. London: W. H. Allen. 1947.
8vo. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. xii, 202, plates with photographic portraits recto-verso; margins of wrappers a little rubbed, otherwise very good.
This is the very uncommon first UK edition of the assessment of the Nazi criminal inmates in Nuremberg. Kelley was the official court psychiatrist, and the deeply unsettling results are presented here 'He and his staff spent five months interviewing and testing Goering, Ribbentropp, Hess and the other nineteen prisoners and in this book Dr. Kelley presents a non-technical psychiatric profile of each of the accused' (inside front flap). In 1958 Kelley committed suicide in front of his family by swallowing potassium cyanide, just like Goering.
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