ID: 461
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921; The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929; The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940.
DEUTSCHER, Isaac

Category: Biography, First Edition, First World War, History, Signed

Place/Publisher/Date:
London, Oxford University Press. 1954; 1959; 1963.

Description: Three volumes. First editions. 8vo; original cloth boards and dust jackets. Volume 1 is a presentation copy signed by the author on the front free end paper, "To my good Publisher with kindest regards Isaac Deutscher, February 1954." The publisher was Geoffrey Cumberlege. Deutscher writes in his preface that one way to understand his book is as a "somewhat ironical commentary" on Machiavellis passage: "all armed prophets have conquered and the unarmed ones have been destoyed". What may be doubted is whether the distinction between the armed prophet and the unarmed one, and the difference between conquest and destruction is always as clear as it seemed to Machiavelli. Volume 1 is very good, bumped at the top of the spine, in a very good dust jacket, which is slightly rubbed at the top of the spine, which is also slightly faded. Volume 2 is very good, slightly bumped at the top and bottom of the spine, in a very good price clipped dust jacket, darkened to the spine and worn at the top of the spine. Volume 3 is very good in a very good dust jacket, which is worn at the top and bottom of the spine.

Price £250.00