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JAGENDORF'S FOUNDRY: A Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust, 1941-1944.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author, then a 56 year old engineer, was among the Romanian Jews deported to the German-occupied Soviet territory of Moghilev. He set up a small task force to repair the city's iron-works (The Foundry), and then continued to devise new projects to keep the spared workers alive - eventually saving 15,000 lives. Written by Jagendorf before his death in the United States in 1970, but never published, this account is interspersed with commentaries with Hirt-Manheimer that expand and document this account. Photographs, sources, index. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-06-016106x.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (tear to front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 37444More details Price: $15.00 -
TALES OF AN ALL-NIGHT TOWN.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83444More details Price: $45.00 -
THE EMPEROR OF LIES.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86071More details Price: $21.50 -
AINT SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Bantam, (1973). First edition - A "novel with lyrics, a gutsy, lusty narrative of black street life the explores every aspect of ghetto agony" based on Van Peebles play of the same title. Includes an insert of 16 pages of photographs by Bert Andrews on glossy stock -"Portraits from the Underground Reservation." 156 pp
Condition: Very good - the usual toning to both the pages and the cover, but more durable and sturdy than most paperbacks from that era. Easily readable and very scarce.
Book ID: 86121More details Price: $145.00 -
THE FIFTH SERVANT.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2011). SIGNED - Mystery set in 1592 in the Jewish ghetto in Prague, featuring Benyamin Ben-Akiva, a Talmudic scholar from Poland. SIGNED on the title page. 398 pp. ISBN: 978-0061725388.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 60308More details Price: $19.50 -
THE FIFTH SERVANT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1592 in the Jewish ghetto in Prague, featuring Benyamin Ben-Akiva, a Talmudic scholar from Poland. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 9780061725371.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (a new copy but with a tiny tear at fold of dj flap.)
Book ID: 60310More details Price: $31.50 -
THE FIFTH SERVANT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1592 in the Jewish ghetto in Prague, featuring Benyamin Ben-Akiva, a Talmudic scholar from Poland. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 9780061725371.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to the pages)
Book ID: 62078More details Price: $28.50 -
THE FIFTH SERVANT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1592 in the Jewish ghetto in Prague, featuring Benyamin Ben-Akiva, a Talmudic scholar from Poland. INSCRIBED on the title page "For -- Who knows what I am talking about. Enjoy." 387 pp. ISBN: 9780061725371.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65094More details Price: $35.00