DIPLOMATIC BAGS

David White, New York, 1966, 1^st English translation.  Hard cover, 158 pages.  Very good; black boards with gilt lettering on spine; bit of edge and corner wear, small light marks at lower edge of front board; binding sound.  Dust jacket price-clipped with edge wear, some tears and repaired tears on verso, small losses.  Prior owner’s name on front end paper; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  Translated from the Italian by Anthony Rhodes.  ‘Many of the characters Pietro Quaroni describes are famous (General Pershing, Weizmann, Bevin, Tito); some are not so famous and already half-forgotten (King Zog of Albania and his fantastic court, Makhno the Anarchist, Lunacharski the “Romantic Revolutionary”); a few are infamous (Stalin, Mussolini, Evita Peron).’