Alan Bullock. A Study in Tyranny. Hardcover, lacking jacket. London: Odhams Press Limited, 1952. First edition. Signed in blue fountain pen ink on front-free endpaper. Fading to the cloth spine as well as part of the front cover. Light creases to the upper right corner of pages 485 to 547. In good condition. 775 pages. Index. Bibliography. Epilogue  Extremely rare to be signed.

Hitler: A Study in Tyranny is the first comprehensive biography of Adolf Hitler, which influenced many other Hitler biographies. Bullock used the recently available transcripts of the Nuremberg Trials, traditional resources, such as letters, diaries, speeches, and memoirs. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny has remained an important and relevant work. In 1991, John Campbell said of the book. “Although written so soon after the end of the war and despite a steady flow of fresh evidence and reinterpretation, it has not been surpassed in nearly 40 years: an astonishing achievement.”