Auschwitz, 1940-1945
Auschwita-Birenkau, Poland: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1978. 1st Eng Lang? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 120, wraps, maps (fold-out map at rear), bibliography, some wear to covers, crease at front corner. More
Auschwita-Birenkau, Poland: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1978. 1st Eng Lang? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 120, wraps, maps (fold-out map at rear), bibliography, some wear to covers, crease at front corner. More
New York: Shengold Publishers, 1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 314 pages. Illus., pencil erasure on front endpaper. Signed by the author. More
New York: Shengold Publishers, 1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 314, small creases in front DJ flap. More
New York: Shengold Publishers, 1994. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 314 pages. Illus., two small stains on rear endpaper. Signed by the author. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. 144 p. Illustrations. Volume 2 only of the 2-volume set, profusely illus., some wear and soiling to covers. A unique and powerful tale of a Holocaust survivor seen through the art and words of his son, avant-garde cartoonist Art Spiegelman. Spiegelman won a special Pulitzer Prize and a Guggenheim fellowship for Maus. Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. From 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker, where he made several high-profile covers. Spiegelman began his career with the Topps bubblegum card company in the mid-1960s; there he co-created parodic series such as Wacky Packages in the 1960s and the Garbage Pail Kids in the 1980s. He gained prominence in the comix scene in the 1970s with short, experimental, and often autobiographical work. Spiegelman turned focus to the book-length Maus, about his relation with his father, a Holocaust survivor. The book depicts Germans as cats, Jews as mice, and ethnic Poles as pigs. It won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992 and has gained a reputation as a pivotal work, responsible for bringing scholarly attention to the comics medium. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2012. First Paperback Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xxvi, 380, [6] pages. Acronyms. Maps. Preface to the Paperback Edition. Notes. Index. A "tremendous," "intrepid" history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction. Jason K. Stearns (born October 31, 1976) is an American writer who worked for ten years in the Congo, including three years during the Second Congo War. He first traveled to the Congo in 2001 to work for a human rights organization, Héritiers de la Justice, in Bukavu. He went on to work for the United Nations peacekeeping mission (MONUC). In 2008 Stearns was named by the UN Secretary General to lead a special UN investigation into the violence in the country. He received a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University on May 24, 2016. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2007. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xix, 230 p. Illustrations. Map. More
[Farnborough, Eng.]: Saxon House, [1974]. 24 cm, 358, chapter notes, sources, index, wear apparent at top and bottom of DJ, rear DJ flap folded. More
[Farnborough, Eng.]: Saxon House, [1974]. 24 cm, 358, chapter notes, sources, index, DJ edges worn, small tear at DJ spine, front DJ flap price clipped, front flyleaf torn out. More
New York: The New American Library [A Signet Book], 1968. First Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. 304 pages. Cover has wear, soiling, and a scuff at front. Part of rear cover gone. Slightly cocked. Preface by Simone de Beauvoir. Jean-François Steiner is a French-Jewish writer born on 17 February 1938 in Paris. He is best known for his non-fiction novel Treblinka: The Revolt of an Extermination Camp first published in 1966 as Treblinka: la révolte d'un camp d'extermination; translated a year later by Helen Weaver for Simon & Schuster. Written in the first person, the book blames members of the Jewish Sonderkommando for assisting the German SS in perpetrating a genocide. Following outrage among French, Jewish and foreign academics, Steiner agreed to republish his book (which was a bestseller), by presenting it as a fictional account of the Treblinka extermination camp operation. The book remains very popular in France. When asked upon the publication of his book why death camps such as Treblinka had been 'avoided' by his own French contemporaries, Steiner replied: "In Treblinka, as in all the other extermination camps, the Germans had designed 'the machine' (as they referred to the methods of extermination) in such a way that it would almost run itself. It is the Jews who did everything." More
New York: The New American Library [A Mentor Book], 1979. Eighth Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. xxiim 15-304, [4] pages. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Introduction by Terrence Des Pres. Preface by Simone de Beauvoir. Jean-François Steiner is a French-Jewish writer born on 17 February 1938 in Paris. He is best known for his non-fiction novel Treblinka: The Revolt of an Extermination Camp first published in 1966 as Treblinka: la révolte d'un camp d'extermination; translated a year later by Helen Weaver for Simon & Schuster. Written in the first person, the book blames members of the Jewish Sonderkommando for assisting the German SS in perpetrating a genocide. Following outrage among French, Jewish and foreign academics, Steiner agreed to republish his book (which was a bestseller), by presenting it as a fictional account of the Treblinka extermination camp operation. The book remains very popular in France. When asked upon the publication of his book why death camps such as Treblinka had been 'avoided' by his own French contemporaries, Steiner replied: "In Treblinka, as in all the other extermination camps, the Germans had designed 'the machine' (as they referred to the methods of extermination) in such a way that it would almost run itself. It is the Jews who did everything." More
Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 487, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, and chips. Inscription on the title page signed by Eric Stover. Inscription reads For Annie, With best wishes, Eric Stover. Eric Stover is an American human rights researcher and advocate and faculty director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley. Stover officially began his human rights work as a researcher at Amnesty International in London, England, from 1977-1980. During this time, the organization won the Nobel Peace Prize for its “campaign against torture,” and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights. Following Amnesty International, Stover became the Director of the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1992, Stover served as the Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights where he worked on forensic missions to examine mass gravesites for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. While at PHR, Stover performed research on the sociomedical consequences of land mines in war-torn countries such as Cambodia. His research helped launch the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which, along with the organization’s director, Jody Williams, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. He has published seven books and numerous reports and articles for press and scholarly publications. Stover became the Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center (HRC) at the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1996, two years after the center was established. More
Strategic Initiative for the Protection of Sri Lanka: Strategic Initiatives for the Protection of Sri Lanka, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing [thus]. Trade paperback. 78 pages. Annexes (largely listings of murders and other terrorist activities). Illustrations (most in color). Cover has some wear and soiling. LTTE stands for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. This document addresses the noted "Discipline" of the Tamil Tigers in the context of a variety of murders, massacres, atrocities, and other violent acts. This work is more a celebration of the victory of the Tamil Tigers than it is a work that extols positive attributes of the terrorist group. Copies are extremely scarce in the United States. More
New York: Living Books, Inc., 1966. First? Edition. First? Printing. 574, tear and chip at top of spine, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ worn, torn, and chipped. More
New York: Scribner, 1997. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p. More
New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. xxxvii, [1], 393, [1] p. Family tree. Illustrations. Maps. Sources. Bibliography. Index. More
Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2002. First edition. First printing stated. [4], 25, [3] p. Includes illustrations. References. More
Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1947. First? Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 361 pages. Some wear and soiling to boards, inscription signed by Abram Sachar on front endpaper. A Hillel Library book. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1991. First American Edition. First? Printing. 184, illus., maps, footnotes, chronology. More
New York: Hill and Wang, 1986. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [8], 245, [3] pages. Maps. Historical Note. In 1975, Molyda Szymusiak (her adoptive name) was twelve years old and leading a relatively peaceful life in Phnom Penh. Suddenly, on April 17, Khmer Rouge radicals seized the capital and drove all its inhabitants into the countryside. The chaos that followed has been widely publicized, most notably in the movie The Killing Fields. Murderous brutality coupled with raging famine caused the death of more than two million people, nearly a third of the population. This powerful memoir documents the horror Cambodians experienced in daily life. Molyda Szymusiak, (born Buth Keo; October 19, 1962) is a Khmer author and photographer born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Following the Khmer Rouge takeover in April 1975, she and her family were driven out of the capital city into the Cambodian countryside. Nearly all of her immediate family was massacred or starved in the famine that accompanied the ensuing genocide. She and three other members of the family survived, arriving at the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp on the Thai border in 1980. In 1981, she and two of her cousins were adopted in Paris by Jan Szymusiak, a French professor and theologian of Polish extraction, and Carmen Affholder. In 1984, she published a memoir on the Khmer Rouge years, originally written in French (Les Pierres Crieront), then translated into English and published under the title The Stones Cry Out. The book is important as one of the few first hand survival narratives of the obscure Pol Pot years of 1975-1979 in Cambodia. More
Calgary, Alberta, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 1998. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xv, [1], 347, [5] pages. Folding front and back covers. Illustrations. Notes. SS ranks and their Approximate equivalent. The Extent of Pre-Hitler Neo-Romanticism. Text of Cardinal Hlond's 1936 Speech. Glossary. Inscribed and dated on half-title page by both the author and Sigmund Sobolewski. Foreword by Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb. Sigmund Sobolewski (Zygmunt Sobolewski; May 11, 1923 – August 7, 2017) was a Polish activist and Holocaust survivor. He was the 88th prisoner to enter Auschwitz on the first transport to the concentration camp on June 14, 1940, and remained a prisoner for four and a half years during World War II. Fluent in German, Sobolewski was pressed into service as a translator. He was an opponent of Holocaust denial and confronted modern neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers. He was the sole surviving witness of the October 7, 1944, revolt at Auschwitz-Birkenau, when Jewish prisoners blew up Crematorium Number 4 and attempted to escape. More
Takoma Park, MD: Dryad Press, c1986. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 261, illus. Inscribed by the author. More
Takoma Park, MD: Dryad Press, 1994. 225, DJ flaps taped inside boards, rear DJ creased. Inscribed by the author. More
Takoma Park, MD: Dryad Press, 1994. Proof? Edition. 225, slight wear and soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the author. This may be an Uncorrected Proof edition--ink notation to that effect. More
Takoma Park, MD: Dryad Press, 1994. Presumed first edition, first printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 225 pages. Front DJ flap creased. Signed (in Yiddish and English) by the author. A novel about the "New Americans"--the Holocaust survivors who were absorbed into the city of Baltimore. How the encouragement of Baltimore community leaders helped these immigrants and their children to restore their shattered lives and start new ones. Taube calls his novel a thank you on behalf of those who found sanctuary on American shores. More