The First American Edition in original publishers cloth (recased) Large Octavo.(9"X6") xiv. (i) 599pps uncut.. Booklabel of "Paul Elders Books San Francisco" to the paste-down. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait. Title page discreetly stamped and partially erased " " Donated by Aaron Berkman " The celebrated American Social Realist Painter. (1900-1991) Signature A to copyright on verso. Written in Constantinople in the first year of his exile in Turkey. In 1929, Trotsky had been declared an enemy of the state and accused of leading a counter-revolutionary movement. A clean sound copy of a rare book with an interesting provenance.