Matorni's Vineyard
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1928. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in black cloth lettered in white. Very good. No jacket. 308 pp. A prophetic novel of a young British tennis professional who spends the season in Monte Carlo in 1940 (though Oppenheim wrote this book in 1928) when he meets an Italian secret agent who is carrying secret documents that show treachery by Italian leader "Matorni". The leader is a thinly veiled version of Benito Mussolini whose Fascists had taken control ofthe country two year earlier. Very Good. Item #E23392
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