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Bentley, Elizabeth

Out of Bondage

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952

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Year of publication
1952
Place of printing
London
Author
Bentley, Elizabeth
Publishers
Rupert Hart-Davis
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Keyword
Biography Communist Party Conversion Elizabeth Bentley Communism, NKVD N.K.V.D. Double-Agent FBI Red Scare Russia Soviet Union, Biography Politics Covert Operations
Binding description
J H Good Hardcover
State of preservation
Good
Languages
English
Binding
Hardcover

Description

256 pages. "Author returned to America in 1934 after a year of studies in Italy, haunted by the possibility of a Fascist regime rising in her homeland. Befriended by a communist, she became one herself. Later, her horrified realisation of the true nature of her Russian masters led her to contact the F.B.I. and spy for them, while still working for the Soviets." - dust jacket. Bentley's story was serialized in McCall's magazine in 1951. Gift greetings atop front free endpaper, otherwise book unmarked with moderate external wear and soiling. Binding tight. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. SEIDMAN B170, HAZLITT p.43, CONSTANTINIDES p.79. Book

Edizione: f first british edition
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