My Irrelevant Defence: Meditations Inside Gaol and Out on Jewish Ritual Murder

First edition, first printing.  58pp stapled booklet in printed light card wraps.  8vo.  Covers are toned, gently rubbed around edges, bumped on corners.  The original price of One Shilling on the front cover has been overwritten with a felt tip pen.  Text block edges toned.  Small, later label with distributors details inside front cover.  Some tanning to first and last few leaves, with some marks on title page else internally neat, clean and tight.  

Leese (1878-1956) was a British fascist politician, a virulent anti-semite and leader of the Imperial Fascist League.  The content of this controversial booklet, for which Leese was imprisoned for six months, first appeared in the in the July 1936 issue of The Fascist journal; this booklet is the first in book form.  Leese explores hsi perception of a Jewish urge for human sacrifice, citing the case of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son. In SIBA *Singerman Bibliography of Anti-Semitic Texts:  Singerman says the pamphlet is “the most extensive English language source in support of the charge of ritual murder.  Scarce.