Counting steps autobiography (18 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable.

First edition Near fine in price-clipped dustjacket with crisp text throughout. Former owner's neat inscription to opening flyleaf which bothers none of the text.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 223 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Printing. DJ has some edge wear and is price-clipped.

Zustand: Very good. - Octavo, cloth in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The binding is lightly rubbed. The dust jacket is rubbed with a tiny chip to the head of its spine. 223 pages. Very good. First American edition.The dust wrapper is price-clipped but there is a small price-sticker on its front flap.…

Hardback. First Printing. Good to Very good condition book, with some dustsoiling on top edge of book, spine cock, covers slightly bowed, in a Very good condition dustjacket. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. Price clipped on jacket, circular price sticker on inside jacket flap.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. A nice clean, tight and unmarked book. Price clipped dust jacket with short marginal tear to top edge, else nice, presentable condition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 223 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. 223 (1) pp. First Printing, 1969. Price clipped. Only the very slightest external wear, else, Pristine Interior. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6" x 8.5". Blue cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine, and brown top text block. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. Viennese born, Jakov Lind (1927-2007) was an Austrian-British writer of short stories and novels." Size: Octavo. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 223pp. Light offsetting on endpapers, slight bumping at the foot of the spine, near fine in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with a small crease on the rear panel, and a tiny sticker shadow on the front flap.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. The dust jacket is somewhat worn, foxed, and the inside flap has been clipped. The edges of the book are lightly foxed and yellowed with age. Several copies are available. 223 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Black and white photographic portrait of the author on the back of the dustwrapper by Ed Victor.***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Top edge of text-block stained black (as called for). Contemporaneous owner's name and date in black biro to front free endpaper. Pages clean. Spine tight. Very slight spine lean. ***In a near fine colour illustrated textured price-clipped dustwrapper. Edges of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed. Tiny date '1927' in neat black biro in margin of front jacket inner flap. No fading. No tears. Dustwrapper bright. ***223 pages. 224mm x 142mm. ***'Jakov's remarkable book, Soul of Wood, published in Britain in 1964, brought him immediate international recognition. He was compared to Kafka, grouped with Grass and Hochhuth and hailed by the New York Times Book Review as 'the most notable short story writer to appear in the last two decades.' ***In this autobiography, he writes with the same dark brilliance, wit and irony of his early life in occupied Europe. Evacuated at the age of eleven from Vienna to Holland after the Anschluss, he escaped capture during the Nazi raids on the ghettoes by hiding in an attic. Under an assumed Dutch identity, he travelled into Germany itself in the crew of a cargo ship, and completed the war working for a secret agent in the German Air Ministry. Smuggled into Palestine, he achieved his first success as a writer and returned to Europe. ***More than an incredible story of a physical survival, Counting My Steps is the account of how one man discovered and miraculously preserved his individuality within the collective madness of war. Finding himself in the extraordinary position of an anti-semitic Semite forced by the annihilationist Nazi machine to share the fate of his people, he was able, through an insane courage and the exercise of his singular intelligence, to salvage his identity. ***Counting My Steps is the first book Jakov Lind has written in English. Moving, funny and fiercely honest, it is one of the most memorable personal testimonies of our time.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***Jakov Lind (born Heinz Jakov Landwirth, 10 Feb 1927 in Vienna - died 16 Feb 2007 in London) was an Austrian-British writer of short stories and novels. In 1954, he settled in London, where he wrote, in German, the short stories and novels on which his stature as a major European writer is based: Soul of Wood, Landscape in Concrete, and Ergo. Lind began writing in English, and the autobiography Counting My Steps was the first book written in his new language. ***First impression of the first UK edition, complete in its original dustwrapper, in very nice collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of Jakov Lind and post-war European literature. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Jakov Lind [Jacket illustration] (illustrator).…

224pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper, light wear to extremities, bumped on corners. Small mark on ffe, otherwise a very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. PRICE CLIPPED.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First US Edition. First impression of the true first edition, published in the USA (precedes the UK edition). Black and white photographic portrait of the author on the back of the dustwrapper by Jerry Bauer. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles to spine and facsimile gilt signature of Jakov Lind to front board. Flecked plain front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Fore-edge of text-block untrimmed (rough-cut, as common in US editions). Top edge of text-block stained burgundy (as called for). Small splash stain on top edge, not affecting the interior. Owner's name in ink on pastedown under front jacket flap. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour illustrated price-clipped dustwrapper. Edges of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. No fading. No tears. Dustwrapper bright. ***223 pages. 218mm x 148mm. ***'Jakov Lind's formidable talents are again evident in this autobiography. The New York Times called him "the most notable short-story writer to appear in the last two decades," on the appearance of his 'Soul of Wood, and Other Stories'. With Gunther Grass and Rolf Hochhuth, he is now ranked as a major contemporary European writer. His skills as a playwright have also contributed to the dramatic intensity of Counting My Steps. ***The book is the reconstruction of Lind's years before he was twenty-three, a young Austrian Jew hiding from the Nazis ---There are three major "steps" in the story. The first, "School for Metaphysics," takes him through his school days in Vienna, discussing with his fellows "God, the world, and the ultimate destiny of men." The next, "School for Politics," recalls his years as Jan Overbeek in Holland, where he went alone as a refugee when he was eleven In between working in the fields and outwitting the Nazis, he began to discover the pleasures of sex, and other verities of existence. Fleeing Holland, he sailed as a bargeman to Germany. ---Indirectly, he finds an unlikely post inside the Air Ministry. ***In the final section of the memoir, "School for alchemy"' he escapes once more, this time as Jakov Chaklan, illegally aboard a ship to Palestine, and begins his career as a writer (Quote from inside front and rear of dustwrapper blurb). ***Jakov Lind (born Heinz Jakov Landwirth, 10 Feb 1927 in Vienna - died 16 Feb 2007 in London) was an Austrian-British writer of short stories and novels. In 1954, he settled in London, where he wrote, in German, the short stories and novels on which his stature as a major European writer is based: Soul of Wood, Landscape in Concrete, and Ergo. Lind began writing in English, and the autobiography Counting My Steps was the first book written in his new language. ***First impression of the true first US edition, complete in its original dustwrapper, in very nice collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of Jakov Lind and post-war European literature. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Alex Gotfried [Jacket design] (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. Very well kept copy, with intact jacket, tight and unmarked, little wear. Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer.

Zustand: Good. Hardcover, good condition, dust jalet, blownish spots on edges.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. 223pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with small abrasions. Signed by the author.