Burgos justice; a year's experience of Nationalist Spain, with an foreword by Elliot Paul
Ruiz Vilaplana, Antonio
Burgos justice; a year's experience of Nationalist Spain, with an foreword by Elliot Paul
Ruiz Vilaplana, Antonio
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date published: 1938
Format: Hardcover
241p., first American edition cloth boards in dj; review copy with worn slip laid in, along with a printed note from the publisher responding to accusations by a British peer that Vilaplana lied about his recent past. Bright casebinding, but the jacket is badly foxed, slightly muskey, good only. The author, an early supporter of the Nationalist cause and its Commissioner of Justice in Burgos, became revolted by the franquist administration of justice and fled the country. Translated by W. Horsfall Carter.
Burgos Justice: A Year's Experience of National Spain.
RUIZ, Vilaplana, Antonio.
Burgos Justice: A Year's Experience of National Spain.
RUIZ, Vilaplana, Antonio.
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.
Date published: 1938
Format: Hardcover
First American edition (so stated). 8vo. Translated by W. Horsfall Carter. One page foreword by Elliot Paul. Dust jacket (unclipped; back faded). Else very good. 241 pages. No signatures or bookplates.
Burgos justice; a year's experience of Nationalist Spain, translated by W. Horsfall Carter
Ruiz Vilaplana, Antonio
Burgos justice; a year's experience of Nationalist Spain, translated by W. Horsfall Carter
Ruiz Vilaplana, Antonio
Publisher: Constable & Co, London
Date published: 1938
Format: Hardcover
x, 258p., first British edition brown cloth boards gilt in dj; jacket rather shelfworn with a small loss mid-spine panel. This copy bears a Paramount Pictures Inc rubberstamp that requests "Return to Story Dept." The author, an early supporter of the Nationalist cause and its Commissioner of Justice in Burgos, became revolted by the franquist administration of justice and fled the country.
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