THE EITINGONS: A Twentieth-Century Story.
Pp. xviii+476, 24 plates, double page text illustration, pictorial endpapers, double page map, family trees, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper; Faber & Faber, London, 2009. First edition. *'Leonid Eitingon was a KGB assassin who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Turkey in the late 1920s, in Spain during the civil war, and, crucially, in Mexico when Trotsky was killed . . . . Max Eitingon was a psychoanalyst, and a colleague, friend and protege of Freud's. He was rich, secretive and - through his friendship with a famous Russian singer - implicated in the abduction of a White Russian general in Paris in 1937. Monty Eitingon was a New York fur dealer whose connections with the Soviet Union made him the largest fur trader in the world' [wrapper blurb]. Item #179835
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