The Prosecutor and The Prey. Vyshnsky and the 1930s Moscow Show Trials

by Arkady Vaksberg, Jan Butler

£45 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

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

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