The History of the Russian Revolution.

£3,750 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

first edition in English, very rare in dustjacket The first edition in English of Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution. Very rare in the original bright red dustjackets. First edition in English, first impressions; 3 vols; 8vo (24 x 16.5 cm); black white photographic plates, advertisement slip for vol. II, loose to vol. I, old bookseller's ticket for 'Zeitlin Books' to rear pastedown of each vol., slight offsetting to endpapers, a little spotting to pastedowns of vols II III, otherwise internally clean; publisher's oatmeal cloth, lettered in red to upper covers and spines, in the rare unclipped typographic dustjackets lettered in oatmeal and black on a red ground, spines very slightly sunned, and a little chipped and frayed at head, old foldline diagonal across upper cover of vol. I, top-edges stained red, overall a bright and vibrant set; xxii, 522; xv, [1], 271, [1]; [6], 474pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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