Witness
New York: Random House, 1952.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Whittaker Chambers and inscribed on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original black cloth boards with spine lettered in gilt and white. Very Good with rubbing to spine lettering and light wear to covers. Hinge exposed at title page and page 806/807. Former owner stamp and short tear to bottom edge of half-title page, owner initials to front free endpaper. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with soiling, light edge wear and toning. Chambers was an American writer-editor, who, after early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938), defected from the Soviet underground (1938), worked for Time magazine (1939–1948), and then testified about the Ware group in what became the Hiss case for perjury (1949–1950), often referred to as the "trial of the century", all described in this 1952 memoir. President Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984.
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