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  • My Autobiography: With "The Political and Social: Benito Mussolini, Richard.
  • First edition of My Autobiography by Benito Mussolini, with laid in signature.
  • 1928 Benito Mussolini My Autobiography.

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    My Autobiography

    Description

    First edition of My Autobiography by Benito Mussolini, with laid in signature. Octavo, xix, 318pp. Green cloth, gilt title on spine, gilt title and illustration on cover. Publication date of 1928 showing on copyright page and title page. Frontispiece portrait opposite title page, tissue cover. Publishers first state dust jacket with $3.50 price on front flap, closed tear along top edge of front panel, light toning to spine, archival repair to back side of jacket. Laid-in signed card from Benito Mussolini, with letter from his personal secretary, dated 1929. Includes PSA certificate. An attractive copy of this first edition in jacket, with additional signed card by the dictator himself.

    Comments: Published in 1928, before the events of World War II would make Mussolini a household name.

    Additional information

    Location Published

    New York

    Publisher

    Charles Scribner's Sons

    Edition

    First American Edition

    Date Published

    1928

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    Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First American Edition. Octavo, xix, 318pp. Green cloth, gilt title on spine, gilt title and illustration on cover. Publication date of 1928, with the Scribner's Seal on back panel. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 7 photographic plates. Frontispiece portrait includes the tissue cover. Faint dust along top edge of text block, solid binding, a bright, near fine example. In the publisher's scarce first state dust jacket, $3.50 price on front flap, multiple closed tears, some loss along top edge of back panel, Japanese tissue repair to verso, a very good example. Signed on the title page by Benito Mussolini. Includes a letter of provenance from the Consolato Generale d'Italia, delivering this signed copy of "My Autobiography," and thanking "E.T. Kitzenberger" from the Charles Scribner's Company for his help in publishing the book. This work was dictated to Richard Washburn Child and L

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    My Autobiography / The Political & Social Doctrine of Fascism

    March 17, 2015
    Before He was Funny, The Autobiography of Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini wrote his autobiography, rather, Mussolini dictated his autobiography, in 1928, when he was still ascending, and it wasn’t published in Italy until 1971, years after his ignominious fall from power. Say, what? What’s the point of an autobiography if you’re not going to publish it? Well, he did publish it in 1928, in the United States. That, apparently, was the intent of the book, to speak to amerika. (Which doesn’t explain why he didn’t also simultaneously publish it in Italy and elsewhere.) It first appeared, serialized, in the Saturday Evening Post, then came a Scribner’s edition, (one of those large print, green-cover hardbound tomes.) So who exactly was Mussolini ansträngande to reach in amerika, and why?

    Was it the millions of Italian immigrants and their children? Was it the money people in America? Both?

    Maybe Mussolini wan