THE CASE THAT WILL NOT DIE: Commonwealth vs. Sacco and Vanzetti.
Pp. xxx+576, 8 plates, 3-page facsimile letter, 4 full page maps, chronology, bibliography, index; thick med. 8vo; dark green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges rubbed, lightly foxed on flaps and reverse; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges faintly foxed; W. H. Allen, London, 1970. First U.K. edition. *'On August 23, 1927, Nicola Sacco, a shoe-maker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler, were executed on conviction of murder by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Their trial had been the object of profound controversy from the beginning - a controversy that grew to international proportions by the time the two Italian-born anarchists were electrocuted at Charlestown State Prison' [wrapper blurb]. Item #183205
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