“[Mussolini] is superstitious. Early in his career he had accepted, among the thousands of gifts which poured in on him, an Egyptian mummy. Then Lord Carnarvon, excavator of the Tomb of Tutankhamen, died. Mussolini ordered the mummy to be removed. He woke up the staff of the Palazzo Chigi (where he then worked) to have it instantly taken away, his fright of it having descended on him late at night.”
A portrait gallery of European dictators and statesmen: Hitler, Daladier, Stalin, Mussolini, Chamberlain, Benes, and their rivals and associates and underlings. Gunther provides a complete, up-to-date, fast-moving close-up of Europe itself.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1938. Revised edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 532 pages. Dust jacket in fair condition and in protector. Boards clean with some fading, little edge wear, some bumping to corners. Binding tight and square. Hinges strong. Owner’s name on end papers. Pages tanned. Solid copy.
