OSBORNE S.MareMagnum
19398vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original navy blue buckram, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy. With relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Includes summary biographies of many notable German Jews. Scarce in this condition.
20028vo., First Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
19438vo., First English Edition, with 50 plates on 23 and front and rear endpaper maps, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth gilt, gilt back, a good, firm copy . Sold from an institution with the usual stamps and markings. The first detailed contemporary account of the tragedies of the Dutch Occupation and its aftermath. Effectively an updated translation by Stoppleman of De Jong's 'Je Maintiendrai, I & II' (published in London for the exiled community). Scarce. Not recorded by Enser.
19838vo., First UK Edition; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Enser, p.73.
19798vo., First US Edition, with 18 plates on 8 and endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back backstrip faded (but lettering just legible), covers lightly age-marked else a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.143.
1995Roy. 4to., First Edition, with 270 fine full-page monochrome photographs and a double-page map in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Awesome and harrowing collection of superb photographs taken by Reinartz between 1987 and 1993 and published here fifty years after VE-Day. Virtually all the major camps are included, together with several lesser-known centres of infamy. Picture captions (given separately at rear) are as succinct as they should be; the map shows locations. Von Krockow's thoughtful text sets the context, and includes a useful set of camp histories and a select bibliography. A timely reminder without sensationalism of any kind; just sombre awfulness. Scarce.
19908vo., First US Edition, with photographs in the text and front and rear endpaper maps; ivory boards, blue cloth back lettered in silver, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
20068vo., First UK Edition, with plates; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author was sent first to Sachsenhausen and then Auschwitz where he worked on the banknote programme
19598vo., First English Edition, with 4 plates and a full-page facsimile in the text, wanting front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. With the trade ticket of Gieves of Portsmouth on front paste-down. The work was first published in Germany in the preceding year. Enser, p.213.
19968vo., Second Edition, with very numerous photographs, facsimiles and plans in the text; original pictorial boards, blue silk marker, a fine copy.
1979Sm. 4to., First Edition, with illustrations and plans in the text, and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
19618vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Autobiography of the man who survived the Radom ghetto (and much else) to become a nazi-hunter under Ben Nathan. His most famous success was the capture of Adolf Eichmann after a fifteen-year manhunt.
19854to., First Edition, with very numerous full-page photographs throughout; oatmeal Holland, backstrip lettered in black, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. Comprehensive photographic survey with over 240 contemporary images of WWII destruction. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
20028vo., First Edition thus, page-edges very slightly browning; original black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the book that forms the basis of Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning feature film (2002) starring Adrien Brody. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
20048vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
20128vo., First Edition; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First edition in English of this remarkable memoir by a suruvivor of the Uprising
20128vo., First Edition; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First edition in English of this remarkable memoir; Langlet saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the death camps
19968vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The modern chronicler of the Holocaust tells the story of 732 young concentration camp survivors.
19908vo., First Edition, with plates; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. A Hungarian-Jewish woman survives WWII and the October Revolution.
20118vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
20128vo., First Edition thus, with 9pp of plates; pictorial boards, brown buckram back lettered in white and black, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's slip-case
20004to., First Edition, with a frontispiece map and very numerous photographs, facsimiles and maps throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.
19888vo., First Edition thus, with full-page plan in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vividly written account of a French medical student's involvement with the resistance and his subsequent incarceration at Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen
19728vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 15 plates on 12; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The biography of Hannah Senesh and the destruction of Hungarian Jewry. Enser, p.216.
19898vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, orange endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The autobiography of the world's most persistent Nazi-hunter.
