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False Witness
by RADER, Melvin
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. xviii, 209. Half yellow cloth over brown paper-covered boards. Fine in VG dust jacket. The UW professor's account of the Canwell Committee witch hunt, whose kangaroo court was more representative of Stalin's Soviet tactics than the misidentified "communist plot" it purported to expose. Contains a whodunit aspect involving a hotel register that would have shown Rader and his wife were staying at the Canyon Creek Lodge, near Granite Falls, and not at, as accused, a communist training camp.
If one looks closely, a copy of this book rests on the desk of the character played by Dustin Hoffman in "Marathon Man," shown as research for his thesis "Tyranny in America." That's one of the few instances of product-placement of which we approve. Increasingly uncommon in this exemplary condition. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1308
- Title
- False Witness
- Author
- RADER, Melvin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Place of Publication
- Seattle and London
- Date Published
- 1969
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
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