levi translated raymond rosenthal (15 résultats)

Etat : Very Good. 1757679326. 9/12/2025 12:15:26 PM.

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 224 pages. 7.56x5.04x0.55 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Reprint. viii + 209 pages. Page-edges page-yellowed o/w pages and covers very clean.

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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14.5cm, 233pp. Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author's experiences in Fascist Italy, and later in Auschwitz, with his passion for scientific knowledge and discovery. A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas argon (and 'inert' relatives like the uncle who stayed in bed for twenty-two years) to life-giving carbon. 'Iron' honours the mountain-climbing resistance hero who put iron in Levi's student soul, 'Cerium' recalls the improvised cigarette lighters which saved his life in Auschwitz, while 'Vanadium' describes an eerie post-war correspondence with the man who had been his 'boss' there. Condition: A good plus copy. The dustwrapper has been neatly price-clipped and there is light bumping to the corners.

Etat : Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Etat : Acceptable. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First US Edition. DJ is in a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Jacket by Cathy Morley (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE FIRST REVIEWER OF THIS BOOK TIM MILLER, IN BLACK PEN, ON FFEP 'Alan R. (?? illegible) May 1988 (from Tim)'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, some yellowing to page fore edges, slight lean, spine faded and jacket faded in strips, price clipped, no other inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall an interesting copy. 170pp. Primo Levi's attempts to understand the rationale behind the concentration camps and his survivor's guilt. Primo Michele Levi (1919-87), was an Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. Levi died in 1987 from injuries sustained in a fall from a third story apartment landing. His death was officially ruled a suicide, but some have suggested that the fall was accidental. His last book, published posthumously. Very scarce with this signature. Signed by Owner.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Printing. In price-clipped DJ, initials in marker on front free ep; Red cloth hardback. 1st printing. xviii + 68 pp. Transcript of conversation between 2 Italian intellectuals/scientists; Small 8vo; xviii + 68 pages.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. Reprint. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/a whisper of edge wear. A collection of short stories by Italian chemist, writer of Jewish heritage and Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi (1919 - 1987) First published 1975 under the title "Il Sistema Periodico"; this is the English translation. Named for the periodic table in Chemistry, the title is metaphorical. Portions are personal memoirs, and others biographical w/chapter headings such as Argon and Iron. "Sulphur", for instance, is an account of a wartime factory hand's hours on the night shift. Perhaps being a chemist, Levi is here presenting chemistry not as the "subject matter", but as what happens when humans breathe, touch, react, and interact with others. So considered, It is, then, a personal history: of a young man born into a Jewish family, educated in Facist Italy, and survives Auschwitz , A poetic work. 233 pgs in 21 chapters that mingle fact & fiction, history & anecdote to illuminate human conditions in during World War II, Europe.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW Copy w/remainder mark to lower text block. Collection of 51 lyrical essays on birds, frogs, insects, parasites, children's imaginary monsters in their nonverbal universe of play, poetry, chess, . Written between 1969 & 1985 by chemist known for The Periodic Table, and The Monkey's Wrench. Levi, sent to Auschwitz in 1944 due to antifascist resistance in his native Italy, emerged with essential humaness & pleasures of the mind. This anthology serves as "a guide, a lesson, an inspiration" to the delight in living on this earth. 222 pgs. The book is a joy.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine condition. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Summit Books, 1989. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($18.95). Clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are crisp and clean. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. First printing with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Includes 43 delightful essays by the author of SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ, THE PERIODIC TABLE and THE MONKEY'S WRENCH. Several of the essays are autobiographical, treating the reader to glimpses of Levi's childhood summers, his grandparents, unrequited first love, experiences in the death camps, his career as a chemist, and more. Among other topics are: birds, butterflies and beetles, the leap of a flea, frogs on the moon, sidewalks, Rabelais, children's imaginary animals, the mysteries of fire and electricity, fear of snakes, qualities common to chess and poetry, psychological testing, playing children's games, using a word processor for the first time, the challenges of returning to school at the age of sixty, 60, the language of chemistry, the German poets Trakl and Celan, etc. Translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal. Bound in the original blue boards, with a black cloth spine lettered in silver. Complete with dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 223pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

First edition As new and bright in like pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Attractive all around.

First edition of thisÂclassic collection ofÂshort storiesÂbyÂPrimo Levi. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Primo Levi on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Clarke. Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Books signed by Levi are rare. The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. "I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translatedI was deeply impressed" (Saul Bellow). "Brilliant, grave and oddly sunny; certainly a masterpiece" (Los Angeles Times). In 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named it the best science book ever.