First UK edition. xx, 266pp, with black and white illustrations in text. Brown publisher's cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. Binding has been customized with a sealed in illustration and notes regarding Guy Richards on the front panel and an adhered plastic protective sealed wrap. Genealogical tables on endpapers. 8vo. Cloth gently rounded at corners and spine ends, small scar in cloth on spine. Upper text block edge a little toned. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Written in a style more akin to a detective story than a typical history, Guy Richards, former City Editor of Journal America, explores the last days, death and fall out of Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial Family during the Russian Revolution.
