Description
The first edition, second printing of A Study of Communism, signed by FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover.
Octavo, xi, 212pp. Black cloth, title stamped in red and gilt. Stated “Second Printing, September, 1962” on the copyright page. Complete with nine illustrated plates and maps. Solid text block, free of notes or notable wear. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $3.95 on front flap, name in blue ink on front flap of jacket, light sunning to spine, a bright, near fine example.
Signed on the front free endpaper: “Best regards, J. Edgar Hoover / 11.62.”
J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the author of several books during his lifetime. His first book was “Persons in Hiding” published in 1938, a fictionalized account of FBI investigations. It was followed by “Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America and How to Fight It” published in 1958, focusing on the perceived threat of communism within the United States, and later “A Study of Communism,” published in 1962 and “On Communism” in 1969. His books were instrumental in shaping public perception of the FBI and its role in combating perceived threats to American democracy.
