Igra (Samuel) Germany’s National Vice
£125
London, Quality Press, 1945.
First English edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
A disturbing work on the role of what the author perceived as rampant homosexuality in Germany, particularly in regard to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party, and the atrocities they were at best complicit in orchestrating.
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A little minor spotting; cloth partly sunned at spine; jacket torn with some sections of loss to spine, some other edge wear and marking.
Jacket artwork by Whyte.
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