Imperium

  • London: Westropa Press, 1948
By Yockey, Francis Parker (writing as Ulick Varange)
London: Westropa Press, 1948. First edition. First edition, first printing. [xii], iv, 405, [3]; [viii], 280 pp. Complete in two volumes, the first bound in publisher's tan cloth lettered in black, front board stamped in blind; the second bound in black cloth lettered in gilt, front board stamped in blind. Near Fine with typical toning to cheaply-produced contents, light shelf wear, in the very scarce original dust jackets, Very Good with some tape repairs to the extremities and filled-in color, still very bright and attractive. One of a reputed limitation of only 200 sets.

An infamous rarity amongst collectors of extremist literature, self-published, dubbed "America's Mein Kampf" by Anthony Mostrom in the Los Angeles Review of Books. It is perhaps the most theoretically-complex and oft-cited fascist work published after WWII, taking a page from Oswald Spengler more than Hitler. The author, an American who had spent years traveling the globe as a sort of roving representative of the underground Fourth Reich, would briefly make headlines in 1960 when he was arrested in San Francisco by the FBI and took a cyanide pill while in prison, ending his own life a la Hermann Goring. His dalliances with the Soviet Union were no doubt largely the basis of the FBI's interest. As per Imperium Yockey believed in a sort of pan-Europeanism that included the USSR, and is believed to have been actively aiding the Soviets in a sort of sub rosa red/brown alliance against the USA at the height of the Cold War. Imperium was brought back into print in 1962 and has remained so to this day.

Details

Title

Imperium

Author

Yockey, Francis Parker (writing as Ulick Varange)

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

Westropa Press: London

Date

1948

Edition

First edition


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