GRAY WOLF, MUSTAFA KEMAL: An Intimate Study of a Dictator; [scarce biography of the founder of the Republic of Turkey].
New York: Minton, Balch & Co., 1933. First U.S. edition. Kemal (c. 1881 - 1938) was a Field Marshall and statesman who served as the Republic of Turkey's first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. Biography written through the lens of a British historian a decade after Britain's occupying forces were expelled in the Turkish War of Independence. About very good with few tiny tears to cloth at spine ends, light soiling, spine somewhat tanned, top edge foxed, and barest damp stains to base of inner hinges. Lacking scarce dust jacket. From the collection of sportswriter Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with "Zimmie 1946" penciled at head of front endpaper and "THIS BOOK IS THE PROPERTY/ OF PAUL L. ZIMMERMAN" stamped on front pastedown.
Item #72729
Price: $150.00