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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 -
THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2013.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this two-time Booker Prize winning writer and Nobel laureate - one which can be read as an allegory about the plight of refugees everywhere - "Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a new land, David is a boy who is quite literally adrift. The piece of paper explaining his situation is lost, but a fellow passenger, Sim—n, vows to look after the boy. When the boat docks, David and Sim—n are issued new names, new birthdays, and virtually a whole new life." 277 pp. ISBN: 978-0670014651.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 67979More details Price: $21.50 -
PUSHED TO SHORE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books, (2003.). First edition - The author's first novel, an often moving story of an ESL teacher in Missoula, Montana and her Vietnamese and Hmung refugee students. Winner of the 2001 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Rosellen Brown, who wrote the foreword. xii, 307 pp. ISBN: 1889330817.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (crease to corner of rear cover.)
Book ID: 56722More details Price: $15.00 -
MEMORY OF DEPARTURE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grove Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tanzanian author's first novel, a bitter but poetic and haunting coming of age story set in a squalid seaport in East Africa. When it appeared in England, the Times called it "159 pages of sheer joy and magic. The story is deceptively simple..." In 2021, Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents." 159 pp. Striking dust jacket design by Bascove. ISBN: 0-8021-10185.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83978More details Price: $250.00 -
DEATH STALKS THE KHMER.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Baltimore: AmErica House, (2000). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, introducing amateur sleuth Bridget O'Hern, 48. This mystery which involves the murder of Cambodian refugee couple in their apartment in the Seattle area is based on the author's work for many years years with the Cambodian refugee community in the Puget Sound area - a poignant story of those who are never quite able to leave the "Killing Fields" of Cambodia behind them. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 1-588513505.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87302More details Price: $21.50 -
WHEN I WAS A BOY IN BELGIUM: Children of Other Lands #6.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in orange boards illustrated in red, blue and black (note on front endpaper presenting this "for perfect attendance" dated in 1915)
Book ID: 88051More details Price: $100.00 -
DEATH OF A NIGHTINGALE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third title in the series featuring Red Cross nurse Nina Borg who becomes caught up in the dangers facing refugees - in this case, a young Ukrainian mother, accused of murdering her abusive fiancee, who will do anything to protect her daughter. Translated from the Danish by Elisabeth Dyssegaard. 329 pp. ISBN: 978-1616953041.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 86603More details Price: $19.50 -
ZIBA CAME ON A BOAT.
Edition: First US printing.
La Jolla, CA: Kane/Miller Book Publishers, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thoughtful collaboration between this Australian author and award-winning illustrator, based on real events - the story of a little girl whose family has lost almost everything in Afghanistan and go on a journey in search of a new life. Illustrated with watercolors by Robert Ingpen. Large square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1933605524.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 87820More details Price: $20.00 -
IN THE MINDS OF MEN: The Study of Human Behavior and Social Tensions in India.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Basic Books, (1953) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on the UNESCO studies by social scientists conducted at the request of the Government of India as they confronted mass killings and riots between the Hindus and Muslims, millions of refugees and untouchables challenging the caste system, among other problems. Contents include 4 sections: International "Tensions Project", Sources of Solidarity and Cleavage in India Life and History, Social Tensions in Today's India, Prospects of Social Health, and include discussions on child raising, village life, textile workers, the insecurity of the Muslims, the frustration of refugees and more. Map frontispiece. Appendices, index. 306 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (rather severe toning to the pages)
Book ID: 84075More details Price: $25.00 -
TRANSIT.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Condition: Good condition.
Book ID: 90001More details Price: $11.50 -
YELLOW RAIN: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86008More details Price: $40.00