Vendeur : Sheafe Street Books, Portsmouth, NH, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very clean and well preserved copy. Binding is tight, text is free of any markings. N° de réf. du vendeur 007140
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Vendeur : BOOK COLLECTORS GALLERY, SUMMER HILL, NSW, Australie
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good +. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good +. 1st Edition. Slight shelf wear, otherwise tight, bright and clean. DJ Price-clipped. N° de réf. du vendeur 018618
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Vendeur : Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Jakov Lind [Jacket illustration] (illustrateur). First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Black and white photographic portrait of the author on the back of the dustwrapper by Ed Victor.***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Top edge of text-block stained black (as called for). Contemporaneous owner's name and date in black biro to front free endpaper. Pages clean. Spine tight. Very slight spine lean. ***In a near fine colour illustrated textured price-clipped dustwrapper. Edges of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed. Tiny date '1927' in neat black biro in margin of front jacket inner flap. No fading. No tears. Dustwrapper bright. ***223 pages. 224mm x 142mm. ***'Jakov's remarkable book, Soul of Wood, published in Britain in 1964, brought him immediate international recognition. He was compared to Kafka, grouped with Grass and Hochhuth and hailed by the New York Times Book Review as 'the most notable short story writer to appear in the last two decades.' ***In this autobiography, he writes with the same dark brilliance, wit and irony of his early life in occupied Europe. Evacuated at the age of eleven from Vienna to Holland after the Anschluss, he escaped capture during the Nazi raids on the ghettoes by hiding in an attic. Under an assumed Dutch identity, he travelled into Germany itself in the crew of a cargo ship, and completed the war working for a secret agent in the German Air Ministry. Smuggled into Palestine, he achieved his first success as a writer and returned to Europe. ***More than an incredible story of a physical survival, Counting My Steps is the account of how one man discovered and miraculously preserved his individuality within the collective madness of war. Finding himself in the extraordinary position of an anti-semitic Semite forced by the annihilationist Nazi machine to share the fate of his people, he was able, through an insane courage and the exercise of his singular intelligence, to salvage his identity. ***Counting My Steps is the first book Jakov Lind has written in English. Moving, funny and fiercely honest, it is one of the most memorable personal testimonies of our time.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***Jakov Lind (born Heinz Jakov Landwirth, 10 Feb 1927 in Vienna - died 16 Feb 2007 in London) was an Austrian-British writer of short stories and novels. In 1954, he settled in London, where he wrote, in German, the short stories and novels on which his stature as a major European writer is based: Soul of Wood, Landscape in Concrete, and Ergo. Lind began writing in English, and the autobiography Counting My Steps was the first book written in his new language. ***First impression of the first UK edition, complete in its original dustwrapper, in very nice collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of Jakov Lind and post-war European literature. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. N° de réf. du vendeur 6260
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Vendeur : Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First edition. 223pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with small abrasions. Signed by the author. N° de réf. du vendeur 551973
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