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THE WALL.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Random House, (2014.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first appearance in English of this, the final book in Adler's Holocaust trilogy, based on his experiences as a survivor of the death camps. Originally published in German in 1989, translated by Peter Filkins. List of characters and principle events. 630 pp. ISBN: 978-0812993066.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 72519More details Price: $20.00 -
TO THE RESCUE: Eight Artists in an Archive.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee [Printed by Bolger], (1999.). First edition - Catalogue of an exhibition of newly commissioned art works by eight artists - Magdalena Abakanowicz, Alan Berliner, Wendy Ewald, Leon Golub, Pepon Osorio, Gilles Peress, Fred Wilson and Terry Winters - based on their research of, and responses to, 50,000 photographs in the archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. 96 pp. ISBN: 0-96696490X.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 43855More details Price: $25.00 -
SHANGHAI DIARY : A Young Girl's Journey from Hitler's Hate to War-Torn China.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format) for the 2nd edition (originally published in 2002.)
Milwaukie, OR: M Press, (2004.). In 1939, when she was just 11 years old, Ursula and her parents were among the last Jewish families to be able to get out of Germany - and at the time, when of the few places open to Jews was the city of Shanghai, the 'armpit' of the world as one sailor described it. Twenty-thousand Jews found refuge in this city already teeming with people; this is an account of the hardships they encountered, but also the friendships and the helpfulness, and also an account of coming to age in a world torn by war. A fascinating account. Photographs. 267 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed white wrappers
Book ID: 30650More details Price: $25.00 -
UNTIL OUR LAST BREATH: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76403More details Price: $30.00 -
HASEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of two young boys who live and hunt outside a Nazi concentration camp - until the day they see the arrival of a bunch of child-prisoners.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 11656More details Price: $18.00 -
WHAT GOD WANTS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Birch Lane Press, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of interrelated short stories about Holocaust survivors or the children of survivors who now live in Australia, by a writer who is herself the daughter of parents who survived the Holocaust. Winner of the 1992 National Steele Rudd award in Australia. Illustrations by David Rankin. Dustjacket praise from Chaim Potok, Louis Begley and Marilyn French. 260 pp. ISBN: 1-55972-193-6.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 53501More details Price: $20.00 -
STORIES OF AN IMAGINARY CHILDHOOD.
Edition: First printing.
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of interconnected stories that describe the world that might have been his own if not for the catastrophe that destroyed most of Jewish life in eastern Europe during the 1940s. Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and the rites of manhood. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late Oklahoma collector Larry Owens "All of our childhoods, one imaginary" 197 pp. ISBN: 0-810110067.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82242More details Price: $30.00 -
MARGOT.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Riverhead Books, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A novel which imagines that Margot, the older sister of Anne Frank, did not die in a concentration camp, but instead she escaped and made it to America where she is living a secret life at Margie. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 335 pp. ISBN: 978-1624907876.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83468More details Price: $18.50 -
PACK OF THIEVES: How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews and Committed the Greatest Theft in History.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning journalist's expose of the 'detailed systematic looting' of Europe's Jews - by the Nazis, their collaborators, the neutrals, and even the Allies, to steal billions form the Jews of Europe before, during, and after the Holocaust - even 50 years later, assets are still being held in Swiss banks. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-385487630.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (slight spine slant.)
Book ID: 38151More details Price: $14.00 -
SOMEONE NOT REALLY HER MOTHER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - A brief and rather moving novel about mothers and daughters and memory - as Hannah's memory loss and confusion from Alzheimer's disease worsens, other, long hidden and never discussed, memories of her girlhood in France, just before the Nazi invasion, and her years as a refugee in London, become more vivid. Unusual in that it is told mostly from the point of view of Hannah, the mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. SIGNED on the title page and dated in June 2006. 168 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 32320More details Price: $30.00 -
SOMEONE NOT REALLY HER MOTHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A brief and rather moving novel about mothers and daughters and memory - as Hannah's memory loss and confusion from Alzheimer's disease worsens, other, long hidden and never discussed, memories of her girlhood in France, just before the Nazi invasion, and her years as a refugee in London, become more vivid. Unusual in that it is told mostly from the point of view of Hannah, the mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-525-947930.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32516More details Price: $32.00 -
SOMEONE NOT REALLY HER MOTHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A brief and rather moving novel about mothers and daughters and memory - as Hannah's memory loss and confusion from Alzheimer's disease worsens, other, long hidden and never discussed, memories of her girlhood in France, just before the Nazi invasion, and her years as a refugee in London, become more vivid. Unusual in that it is told mostly from the point of view of Hannah, the mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2006. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-525-947930.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33075More details Price: $30.00 -
SOMEONE NOT REALLY HER MOTHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A brief and rather moving novel about mothers and daughters and memory - as Hannah's memory loss and confusion from Alzheimer's disease worsens, other, long hidden and never discussed, memories of her girlhood in France, just before the Nazi invasion, and her years as a refugee in London, become more vivid. Unusual in that it is told mostly from the point of view of Hannah, the mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-525-947930.
Condition: SIGNED on the half title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34365More details Price: $28.00 -
VIVE LA PARIS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion, (2006). First edition - This book for older children, a companion to 'Sahara Special', is "narrated by Sahara's self-confident African American classmate, Paris McCray, who is trying to understand an increasingly confusing world. Paris' gentle older brother is regularly beaten up by her fifth-grade classmate; her piano teacher was once a spy and has numbers tattooed on her arm. . . . Addressing such subjects as the Holocaust, bullying, God's presence, and AIDS, the novel makes a convincing case for rose-colored glasses, dancing the can-can, and playing joyful music with your big brother." (Booklist) 209 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78270More details Price: $12.50 -
BLOCK 11.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82172More details Price: $25.00 -
AFTER LONG SILENCE: A Memoir.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Delacorte, 1999. Raised as a Catholic, at about the age of 30, this author discovered she was Jewish. A moving account of her familyÕs experiences during the Holocaust and the changed relationship between a daughter and her parents.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 23798More details Price: $18.00 -
DEAR GHOSTS: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her eighth collection of poems, reflecting, without sentimentality or bitterness, on many of the losses in her life - the long ago death of her father, the recent illness and death of her mother, the too early death of her husband, and facing her own mortality. 140 pp. ISBN: 1555974430.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64913More details Price: $20.00 -
TESTS OF TIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen witty, elegant and powerful essays about writing, reading, culture, history, politics, and public opinion. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-375412573.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71355More details Price: $115.00 -
THE HIDDEN CHILDREN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First person accounts from 13 of the thousands of young Jewish children who were sent away from their families to live with others - often strangers who risked their own lives to take them in - to avoid the Nazis and escape the Holocaust. Illustrated with many photographs. Written for older children or young adults. Suggestions for further reading, index. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-395-660742.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 29158More details Price: $16.00 -
THE SWEETNESS OF FORGETTING.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 86961More details Price: $27.50 -
THE ASCENT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2023) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "powerful hybrid of history and fiction by this award-winning writer. . Twenty years ago, the Belgian author Stefan Hertmans discovered that his house in Ghent had been the home of Willem Verhulst, a Flemish nationalist who collaborated with German occupiers during the second world war and joined the SS. The Ascent - a work of autofiction that chronicles Hertmanss quest to find out more about Verhulst - draws on memoirs, diaries, official documents and interviews to imagine individual lives amid tumultuous historical events and explore family, nationalism and home." (The Guardian) Illustrated with photographs. Translated from the Dutch by David McKay. 372 pp. ISBN: 978-0593316467.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 90375More details Price: $24.50 -
THE SWASTIKA POEMS.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
New York: The Vanguard Press, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third collection of poetry and one of his most important. In this he looks at his heritage as an American born son of a German immigrant, one whose relatives were fighting for Germany duing World War II, and at the horrors of the Holocaust. One of only 50 numbered and SIGNED copies out of a total edition of 3500 copies. Notes. 82 pp. ISBN: 0-814907806.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket in a fine slipcase.
Book ID: 82071More details Price: $85.00 -
THE DEPUTY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grove Press, 1964. Hardcover first edition - The full edition of the play described as the 'most controversial' of our time, an investigation of Pope Pius XII's silence in the face of the Holocaust. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Foreword by Albert Schweitzer.
Condition: Very good in a near finedustjacket (bookplate, toning to pages.)
Book ID: 12583More details Price: $20.00 -
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 -
WHY MY FATHER DIED: A Daughter Confronts Her Family's Past at the Trial of Klaus Barbie.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83992More details Price: $20.00 -
THE WINTER HORSES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2014). First edition - Young adult novel by this award-winning writer. "Kalinka has lost her home, her family, her belongings - everything but her life. Still, she has gained one small, precious gift: a relationship with the rare wild and wily Przewalski s horses that wander the reservation. Apart from Max, these endangered animals are her only friends until a Nazi campaign of extermination nearly wipes them out for good. Now Kalinka must set out on a treacherous journey through the frozen Ukrainian forest to save the only two surviving horses - and herself." 274 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63463More details Price: $17.50 -
A FEAST IN THE GARDEN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A major novel, the first in ten years, by Hungary's most distinguished writer -
the "rich, poetic story of a man, a family, and a country. David Kobra's enchanted childhood in a small town in the heart of Central Europe comes to an abrupt end. As the Jews of the town are being put on trains to concentration camps, young Kobra escapes to Budapest. He survives the war years in a protected house, grows up with death and violence, witnesses Soviet liberation, lives under Soviet oppression. David Kobra is a writer; he remembers, and he creates. Sharp images of the past alternate with the confused present." Translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein. 394 pp. ISBN: 0-15130548X.Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 88942More details Price: $18.50 -
DISSONANCE.
Edition: First printing.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of the Jim Sagel Prize for the Novel in 2001. A young piano teacher in Los Alamos, New Mexico inherits the papers of a woman she did not know, a musician and surviver of the Holocaust. SIGNED on the title page. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-30908.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (closed tear to lower edge of back cover of dj).
Book ID: 57130More details Price: $25.00 -
PRIMO LEVI: Tragedy of an Optimist.
Edition: First US printing.
Woodstock NY: Overlook Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Primo Levi is represented in this world almost entirely by his writings, and his public self--shy, intelligent, diffident--in some respects disguised the man within. This first biography delves deeply into the life and mind of the controversial writer" a chemist by training, a partisan during World War II, a philosopher, and most importantly a survivor of the concentration camps and a Holocaust witness. Translated from the French by Steve Cox. List of Primo Levi's works. Photographs, notes, glossary of concentration camp terms, bibliography, and index. x, 452 pp. ISBN: 0-87951-8065.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some light toning to the pages, very minor shelfwear.)
Book ID: 57307More details Price: $27.50 -
ORBIT OF DARKNESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of the Holocaust, Auschwitz and the other death camps, and the effects of World War II in Eastern Europe. Vonnegut described MacMillan as "coming closer to the truth of that nightmare" than any other writer.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 15823More details Price: $35.00