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The Seamstress : A Memoir of Survival
by Bernstein, Sara Tuval
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 039914322X
- ISBN 13
- 9780399143229
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket (only very lightly rubbed). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Otherwise all pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First printing with complete number row (13579 10 8642) on the copyright page. Illustrated with a few old photos. Bound in the original light brown boards with a tan spine stamped in shiny gold. From the dust jacket: "Growing up, Sara (Seren) Tuvel was the smartest, most ambitious girl in her Romanian mountain village. When she won and accepted a scholarship to a Gentiles-only Gymnasium, she was forced to make a decision that would change her path forever. At thirteen, faced with a teacher's anti-Semitism, Seren walked out of her classroom and into a new existence. She became the apprentice to a seamstress, and her skill with needle and thread enabled her again and again to patch the fraying pieces of her life. As the Nazis encircled the country and bombs rained down, Seren stitched her way to survival, scraping together enough money to provide for her family. When she, her younger sister Esther, and two friends were sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, the four girls became one another's shelter… Her vivid description of how and why she and her companions managed to survive their years in Ravensbrück is unforgettable." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (xiv), 353pp.
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- Bookseller
- About Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017780
- Title
- The Seamstress : A Memoir of Survival
- Author
- Bernstein, Sara Tuval
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039914322X
- ISBN 13
- 9780399143229
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Bookseller catalogs
- Holocaust / Genocide / Shoah; Judaica / Jewish Studies;
- Size
- 8vo. (xiv), 353pp
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