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Lot 106
Sale 1336 - Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Worlds of Tomorrow, and Americana
Jun 7, 2024
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[GEHENNA PRESS]. SCOTT, John Anthony (1916-2010), editor. The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendome. Northampton: The Gehenna Press, 1964.
Folio. Frontispiece with 21 etchings by Thomas Cornell, loose in full leather chemise as issued.
LIMITED EDITION, number 77 of 300 copies. Today viewed as the "first communist," Gracchus Babeuf was the ringleader of a failed coup d'etat during the French Revolution known as the Conspiracy of Equals, a crime for which he was executed in 1797.
Property from the Collection of Dr. Jonas Hurley