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Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Very good/very good, hardcover, dust jacket.

This is a new copy of The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure by the British journalists Catherine Scott-Curtis and Adrian Levy. It is a first Canadian edition; it was simultaneously published in Britain and the USA. The Amber Room was an entire room of intricately worked amber panels created in 1717 and gifted to Peter the Great. It remained in St. Petersburg's Catherine Palace until 1941, when the Nazis looted the palace and the entire Amber Room vanished. Many people have searched for it and many more have theories about what happened to it. Here, the authors entered the world of espionage and counterespionage that still surrounds Russia. They were able to get into the archives, found a conspiracy and were able to form a cohesive theory. 386 pages, including maps, photos and index. This book has not been read. Aside from a crease to the inside of the dust jacket, it is in mint condition.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1943 film, seen here under the alternate title "Hitler's Hangman." With manuscript pencil annotations on the verso. A dramatization of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a Nazi SS commander, by members of the Czech resistance, which resulted in the decimation of the village of Lidice by the Nazis as revenge. Set in Czechoslovakia. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage borderless satin-finish double weight reference photograph from the 1943 film, showing actors Patricia Morison, John Carradine, and Alan Curtis. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Salvador Dali, and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A fictionalized account of the 1942 assassination of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich and the ensuing Lidice massacre. Director Douglas Sirk's first American production after fleeing Nazi Germany and changing his name from Hans Detlef Sierck. 9.25 x 7.5 inches. Very Good plus, with light toning near the bottom portion of the photograph.