?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
TROTSKY, LEON. The Revolution Betrayed. What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going? Translated by Max Eastman. 8vo, original black cloth, very minor shelf-wear to front cover, two small paint smudges on bottom of front joint; dust jacket, portions of shallow abrading to verso mostly visible on recto, one small cellotape remnant on verso, overall minor rubbing with a few small nicks to fold corners, colors still bright, price intact (with added small blue rubberstamp). A tight, square copy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937
first edition, inscribed and signed by trotsky on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Thomas B. Miller / with best regards / Leon Trotsky / 27/xi 1937 / Coyoacan." In first state dust jacket. A very few inscribed copies signed in the same year and place have appeared on the market over the years, though it is certain that at least two of these have traded hands publicly several times so that the number of these inscribed copies are less than it initially might appear. It is surmised that the Dewey Commission was the occasion from which these copies derive, and the present inscription is likely to one of the visiting American delegation, albeit not one of the core members, for which no known association copies exist. The inscription here apparently accomplished some months subsequent to the initial sub-commission visit. Three years later Trotsky was murdered while still in Mexican exile by Stalin's agents. The best copy we've seen.
