1956 · Westminster, MD
by Artajo, Javier Martin
Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1956. ix, 309p., first US edition cloth casebound gilt titled and decorated in dj, boards marginally sunned, jacket is rubbed and mildly edgeworn. A novel set partly in a Loyalist prison in Madrid, where inmates are "shot like animals under the sign of the Hammer and Sickle" [sic], and where a squad of prison guards is itself imprisoned for "taking reprisals on anarchists;" also set in the Nationalist underground (forging papers that will fool the Republicans &c &c ). (Inventory #: 29004)