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19588vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Brand led the underground movement in Budapest which smuggled Jews out of Europe. Enser, p.242
19738vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in France in 1970. SCARCE. Enser p.113.
19658vo., First Edition, title and edges lightly spotted, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased and edges.
19658vo., First Edition thus, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly creased and rubbed at edges. Enser, p.213.
19448vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original wrappers printed in red and blue, wire-stitched as issued, faint tape marks on wrappers else a very good, good, clean copy. Possibly the first commercially published account of the notorious atrocity perpetrated by Das Reich division in its headlong dash to Normandy. A proportion of the cover price was to underwrite the cost of a memorial. IN THIS CONDITION, A SCARCE SURVIVAL.
19618vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, covers just a little dust-soiled else a near fine copy.
19818vo., First UK Edition, with frontispiece map and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
20088vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19818vo., First UK Edition, neat signature on front paste-down; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Originally published in the US, this is a vividly-written account of the resistance of Jews throughout Europe and the activities of a handful of survivors of the camps who, after 1945, determined to avenge some of their dead brethren. Includes the formation of DIN and the plan to poison the water supply to a quarter of a million German homes. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1939Roy. 8vo., First Edition, neat signature on front paste-down; original terracotta cloth, upper board with printed paper label, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. The political context at the outbreak of WWII.
19888vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19668vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Kaplan's astonishingly detailed diary was found hidden in a paraffin tin more that twenty years after the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. It is a unique and harrowing day-by-day account of life in the Ghetto from September 1939 to August 1942 when Kaplan saved his diary even when he knew he could not save himself.
19468vo., First Edition; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.345.
19828vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Diary of a young Polish girl during the German invasion.
19808vo., First Edition thus, with title-vignette, plates and double-page map; grey boards, white cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published two years after the German edition.
19878vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
20018vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19798vo., First Edition thus, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in orange, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip. Published two years after the German edition. Enser, p.237.
19748vo., with plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original UK edition of 1958. One of the best (and best illustrated) eye-witness accounts of the Uprising, with useful photographs not easily available elsewhere. The endpapers give a detailed street map of the Ghetto quarter. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.469 (recording the first edition).
19708vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. True story of a Franciscan priest who helped to save thousands of Jews in France and Italy. Enser, p.240.
19908vo., First Edition, with plates and patterned endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19808vo., First Edition thus, with fascimiles and photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Facsimile of Stroop's report on the clearance and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, presenting the original document page by page with parallel English translation. After declassification post-Nuremberg, the report was published (in Germany and controversially) in 1960 due largely to the efforts of writer Gunter Grass, with Wirth providing editorship. This is the first appearance in English of a harrowing document, all the more so since it was never intended for publication. Enser, p.236.
19908vo., Second Impression, with plates; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With small personal book-label on front free endpaper, and relevant cutting loosely inserted. Published in the same year as the first edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
20188vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and photographs in the text; printed endpapers; pictorial brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and printed in sepia and white, a fine copy in publisher's slip-case.
19828vo., Second Impression; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Originally published in the US, this is a vividly-written account of the resistance of Jews throughout Europe and the activities of a handful of survivors of the camps who, after 1945, determined to avenge some of their dead brethren. Includes the formation of DIN and the plan to poison the water supply to a quarter of a million German homes. First published in 1971. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
