A very rare Italian translated and printed first edition in English of Mussolini's foundational work on the merits of fascism, printed in English and distributed in America specifically as a piece of propaganda to Italians living in the United States and toward other then-popular conservative and nationalist movements. 

He was seen as a strong leader who rescued Italy, was anti-communist, and was admired by influential Americans like FDR and the Saturday Evening Press styled him the Doctor Dictator, the strong, wise hand necessary in an uncertain modernity. 

His culturally conservative brand of fascism, which he tied to the cultural conservatism of the Catholic Church [as Franco in Spain] was also popular with German nationalists, eugenics movement leaders, and the Ku Klux Klan, all in full strength in the 1920's and 1930's in America.

Why this edition is so scarce is difficult to understand.  It has not been offered at auction and there are currently no examples available in the trade nor referenced in the trade we can locate. 

Mussolini, Benito. Fascism. Doctrine and Institutions. Roma. Ardita Publishers. 1935. First Edition. 313pp.

A rather nicely preserved and scarce first edition. Bound in institutional buckram of the period, as usual, the blank ffep through p.10 detached as a result of the inferior [fascist?] paper used by Ardita. Toned throughout and paper rather stiff, to be handled with care. Not offered at auction and not a solitary example available in the trade.