The Totalitarian State Against Man
Count Richard N. Coudenhove-Kalergi
First edition, second printing, inscribed by the author to the half-title. Coudenhove-Kalergi was a politician, philosopher and founder of the first popular movement for a united Europe, the Paneuropean Union, serving as its founding president for 49 years. In this book, written just prior to World War 2, Coudenhove-Kalergi argues against Communism and Fascism, concluding that "the world not despair so long as at the helm a nation is keeping watch which has clung passionately to personal freedom for nearly one thousand years. Its spirit watches on the North Sea and on all the shores of the world's oceans. It is the spirit of Athens, of freedom, and of personality to which the greater half of humanity today does homage."
Glarus, Switzerland: Paneuropa Editions, 1938. Introduction by William Steed. Publisher's original cloth, lettered and stamped with the Paneuropean Union symbol in gilt; pp. 196. A near fine copy in a very good or better, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square with minimal wear to boards. Jacket shows light shelfwear and a faint dampstain to back panel. Protected in archival mylar.