Memorie Autobiografiche

Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata de Refrattari, 1930. 1,044p. paperback, scarcer than the hardcover edition from the same publisher; minor wear to spine ends, very good. Translated from the (then-unpublished) French into Italian, with a short preface by Luigi Galleani. A brief note at the end indicates that printing was completed in September 1930, despite the 1929 date at the front. Memoir by the French anarchist and thief, whose actions inspired many in the individualist anarchist milieu of Illegalism. Duval had escaped from prison in French Guiana in 1901 and traveled to New York, remaining there for the rest of his life, sheltered by Galleanists. In the words of Paul Avrich, "...Clément Duval, a Parisian anarchist and jewel thief who, captured in 1886, stabbed the arresting officer and defended his action with the words: 'The policeman arrested me in the name of the law; I struck him in the name of liberty.' Duval was led out of court shouting, 'Long live anarchy! Long live the social revolution! Ah, if ever I am freed, I will blow you all up!'... When Duval escaped from Devil's Island in 1901 and found his way to the United States, he was hidden by [Luigi] Galleani's associates, with whom... he remained for the rest of his life (he died in Brooklyn in 1935 in his eighty-sixth year)." *Avrich, SACCO AND VANZETTI, THE ANARCHIST BACKGROUND. Princeton, 1991. p. 98. (Inventory #: 335760)