THE GREEN BOOK: Part One: The Solution of the Problem of Democracy 'The Authority of the People'; Part Two: The Solution of the Economic Problem 'Socialism''; Part Three: The Social Basis of he Third Universal Theory.

First collected edition in English. Signed by the author. Publisher's green rexine covered boards lettered in gilt. Text printed in black and green. 17 x 12cm. 120 pages. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a small bump to the lower corner of the upper board. The contents, with the name of the Swedish politician Per Gahrton together with his room number at Hotel Omar Khayyam in Benghazi noted in blue pen on front free endpaper, and with his occasional underlining throughout the text, are otherwise clean and bright.

Signed by the author, political theorist and de facto leader of Libya (from 1969-2011) Muammar Al Qadaffi in blue ink on the rear endpaper, underneath which the recipient Per Gahrton has noted in Swedish "Qaddafi's signature, Benghazi 8.4.83". Per Gahrton (1943-2023), a founding member of the Swedish Green Party and a fluent speaker of Arabic, was in Benghazi for a conference on The Green Book, where he had the opportunity meet Qadaffi for an interview, during which this book was signed.