SMELLIE, Kingsley Bryce.

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Our Two Democracies at Work. First edition of this guide to American and British governance systems. This copy belonged to Otto Brichacek (1914-1999), a communist resistance fighter who fled to England in 1938 and became a leading figure in the Austrian émigré community.Brichacek's bookplate carries the pseudonym he used in exile, "Fritz Walter", while his given name appears on an ex-libris stamp on the title page.The work was published in Harrap's America and Britain series.

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