Holocaust from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. First Printing, first state, with extraneous line at the top of p.270 struck-through by Kosinski himself, using the same pen he used to write the inscription. Octavo (21cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and author's name in blind on front panel; brown topstain; dustjacket; [xii],272,[4]pp. Lengthily inscribed by… Read more about this item

Basel: Universum-Buecherei, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 32pp. Publisher's catalog inside rear cover. Front cover illustration by Frans Masereel; rear cover illustratin by Grula Zilzer. Slight soil to wrapper edges and a bit of wear to covers, but generally clean and unmarked; Very Good. or better Scarce volume of anti-Fascist essays by German writers-in-exile including… Read more about this item

Basel: Universum-Buecherei, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 32pp. Publisher's catalog inside rear cover. Front cover illustration by Frans Masereel; rear cover illustratin by Grula Zilzer. Small chips and moderate soil to wrapper edges; slight waviness to text fore edge, but generally clean and unmarked; complete, sound and about Very Good. Scarce volume of anti-Fascist essays… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1973. First American, and first English language edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; yellow top-stain; 399pp. Tight, straight, fine copy, with top-stain vivid and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.95 on front flap), lightly rubbed at extremities, VG+. Ben-Amotz's semi-autobiographical first novel, a landmark portrayal of a Polish Holocaust survivor… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1979. First Edition. Trade issue. Octavo. Maroon cloth gilt; dustjacket; 515pp. Slight pull to front hinge, still Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $12.95 on front flap); spine very slightly faded, with a few superficial wrinkles and a small nick at heel; Near Fine. Styron's final novel, a runaway best-seller and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, (1970). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xviii,541pp. Neat ink ownership signature to front endpaper; contemporary ink gift inscription to half-title, else a tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, lightly edgeworn, still Very Good or better. Edited volume of essays on Jewish philosophy and history, selected… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, (1980). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xiv,610pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper, else a tight, Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, lightly rubbed, still Near Fine.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 349pp. Remainder stamp to bottom edge of text block, else a tight, Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped, very mildly worn, Near Fine.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. First English Language Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xx,487pp; illus. Translated from the the Hebrew by Ina Friedman. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy in a lightly worn dustwrapper; Near Fine.

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1958. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hadcover; dustjacket; xii,385pp. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper, else about Fine in the original dustwrapper, lightly rubbed, still Near Fine. Edited, partially translated, and with a substantial introductory biographical essay by Koppel S. Pinson.

London: Sheldon Press, 1978. First U.K. Edition. First impression. Small octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 181pp. Neat ownership signature on front endpaper. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Four essays, originally delivered as the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington.

London: J.M. Dent & Co, [1980]. First U.K. Edition. Small octavo. Maroon cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 148pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper, else Fine in unclipped dustwrapper. British issue, printed from American sheets (originally published in America by Godine, 1980).

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1967. First English Language Edition. Octavo. Maroon cloth hardcover; 387pp. Front endpaper slightly darkened from a laid-in clipping, else tight and fine in a crisp and unfaded dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.50 on front flap); Near Fine. The first English-language publication of this selection of the German-Jewish poet's work, following her Nobel Prize in 1966.… Read more about this item

Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1966. Viertes und funftes tausend". Octavo. Black linen-covered flexible boards, with applied spine label; dustjacket; 386,[16]pp. Front endpaper and flyleaf slightly darkened from a laid-in clipping, else tight and fine in a crisp and unfaded dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.50 on front flap); with publisher's wrap-around band announcing Sachs' Nobel Prize; Near Fine. Text entirely in German.… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon, 1963. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 592pp. Tight, straight and Fine in a slightly spine-faded and price-clipped dustwrapper, Very Good. The Nobel Prize-winning novelist's best-known book, and one of the great classics of German post-War literature.

New York: Seabury Press, 1979. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Cloth-covered boards (hardcover) in pictorial dustwrapper; 268pp. Fine and unmarked in an unclipped (priced $12.95), slightly spine-sunned jacket, Near Fine. Translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel.

New York: Seabury Press, 1979. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Cloth-covered boards (hardcover) in pictorial dustwrapper; 268pp. Fine and unmarked in an unclipped (priced $12.95), slightly spine-sunned jacket, Near Fine. Translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel.

Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial cloth boards; 504pp. Fine; no dustjacket, as issued.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii,210,[2]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $7.95), with light wear to extremities, gentle sunning to spine, and two short tears with attendant creasing at… Read more about this item

New York: Social Science Monographs and Institute for Holocaust Studies of The City University of New York / Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1985. First Edition. Review Copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); dark blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,154pp. Fine in a lightly edgeworn, Near Fine dustjacket. Contents include "The… Read more about this item