Földvári Books

Copy of the Communist Hungarian Prime Minister

Alicata, Mario – Prattico, Franco – Cecchi, Ottavio

Palmiro Togliatti cinquant’anni nella storia dell’Italia e del mondo. [...].

(Rome): Editrice l’Unità - edizione fuori commercio (Graphocolor), (1965). With numerous photographical illustration, many colored. First edition. Non-commercial edition. Housed in red cloth folder. Luxury copy in red morocco, gilt ornamentation on boards and gilt inner edges. Gilt title and ornaments on spine. With the letter from Amerigo Terenzi. (290) p. In fine condition.

With the letter from Amerigo Terenzi (1909–1984; chief editor of “L'Unità”, chief of the editorial section of the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party, later the vice-president of the World Peace Council) to István Dobi (1 page, signed, typed letter with the letterhead of the “Partito Comunista Italiano”, dated on October 15, 1965) wherein he explains that the book was sent to those comrades – as a reward – who were the most tireless in Party activities and did the most to spread the Newspaper “L'Unità”. With the Hungarian translation of the letter, and a notice (1 page, signed, typed letter with the letterhead of the Department for Foreign Affairs of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Worker’s Party, dated on November 10, 1965) by Frigyes Puja, deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs about the album that was sent – beside Dobi – only for János Kádár (General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Worker’s Party) and Gyula Kállai (Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People’s Republic of Hungary). With abridged Hungarian translations of the text and the titles of the images of the book.

Price: €1,000.00