Spain, Spanish State. A 1942 Edition of Raza from the Personal Library of Francisco Franco

A rare and exceptionally well-preserved 1942 edition of “Raza: Anecdotario para el guión de una película” (“Race: Anecdote for a Movie Script”), a semi-autobiographical novel authored by Francisco Franco under the pseudonym “Jaime de Andrade” and later turned into a film, with the story focusing on the lives of members of a patriotic Spanish family in the period from the Spanish-American War through to the Nationalists’ victory in the Spanish Civil War, constructed of a card stock binding with a maroon leather exterior liner and with the cover bearing Franco’s personal coat of arms in embossed gilt, the interior retaining all 245 paginated pages, with the inside of the cover retaining Franco’s fully-intact bookplate, published in 1942 by Lopez-Valencia, Madrid-Mexico, as one of a limited run of 500 copies, measuring 21 cm (w) x 28 cm (h), with minor material fatigue visible to the exterior liner, an exceptionally rare example of Franco memorabilia authored by the subject himself in extremely fine condition.