Editore: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Arcade Publishing, Incorporated, 1989, 1989
Da: Pensees Bookshop, Charleston, IL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. First Edition.
Editore: Arcade Pub, New York, NY, 1989
ISBN 10: 1559700017 ISBN 13: 9781559700016
Da: 2Vbooks, Derwood, MD, U.S.A.
Hard cover. Condizione: Fine. No dust jacket. English ed. Text in French, English. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 273 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages No bent corners. No remainder mark. HC 410.
Halter, Marek, trans. by Lowell Bair., Arcade Pub., 1989, c1989, 1st English language edition, boards & cloth (hard cover), fine with slightly chipped dj, 273 pp with index, tall 8vo.
Editore: Arcade, NY, 1989
ISBN 10: 1559700017 ISBN 13: 9781559700016
Da: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Printing.
Editore: Arcade Publishing, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 1559700769 ISBN 13: 9781559700764
Da: Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA-FABA-IOBA), DeLand, FL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. 8vo; 9.5 inches tall; 377 pages. A sequel to the magisterial, best-selling The Book of Abraham (1986), which used fictional speculation to help trace Halter's family history from 70 A.D. to WW II: here, the author takes the mystery behind the 1961 assassination of his cousin Hugo Halter. [Kirkus] Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
Editore: Dell Publ Sept 1987, New York, 1987
Da: Ed Buryn Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Condizione: New. 1st printing. Unforgettable family story from a first Abraham at the burning of Jerusalem in AD70 to a modern Abraham at the battle of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. Mint new unread copy of PB 1st. 704 , glossary. MM paperback in color illus double wraps.
Editore: Arcade Pub, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1990
ISBN 10: 1559700769 ISBN 13: 9781559700764
Da: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. New York: Arcade/Little,Brown, 1990. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 377 pp. A fascinating history of the Jews, praised by the New York Times, Shimon Peres, Chaim Potok, and others. Remainder mark. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. No other writing inside. Book appears little-read. Very good in near fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.
Editore: Collins, London, 1986
ISBN 10: 0002231360 ISBN 13: 9780002231367
Da: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Map end papers.No owner's inscription. 722 pages clean and tight. The Book of Abraham is a dazzling work of historical fiction which spans two thousand years and a hundred generations of one Jewish family. It is also the fulfilment of a spectacular undertaking, for it is the history of Marek Halter's own family which has been traced. The book opens in 70 A.D. The legionnaires of the Emperor Titus are laying waste to Jerusalem after long years of siege and, after great hesitation and anguish, the scribe Abraham flees the burning city. It ends in 1943 when the printer Abraham Halter - the author's grandfather - perishes in the flames of the Warsaw Ghetto. In each of the intervening generations, at least one man follows the calling of the initiator of the family scroll. Scribe turns printer, and from the fifteenth century onwards The Book of Abraham is based on the Halter family records, revealing extraordinary documentary evidence about their lives. The descendants of the first Abraham travel from Alexandria to Rome, to Carthage and Constantinople, to Toledo, Troyes and Strasbourg, to Soncino, Amsterdam and Paris, and finally to Poland - places as vividly drawn as the characters involved. The result is a magnificent and biblical tale of ordinary men and women - peasants and bankers, workers and merchants, poets and scholars - whose lives, governed throughout by religion and exile, are recounted against the background of the great events of the past. As history and as fiction, The Book of Abraham is an epic both in its scope and its execution. Size: Lge 8vo.
Editore: Arcade Pub, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 1559700017 ISBN 13: 9781559700016
Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Condizione: very good, very good. 1st Eng. Lang. Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 273, index, p. 140 creased. Translation of: Le fou et les rois. Personal memoirs and political history. The author discusses his birth in the Warsaw Ghetto on the eve of World War II, his escape to Russia when the Germans invaded, and his staunch support and fierce advocacy of Arab rights over the past 30 years.
Editore: William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London, 1986
ISBN 10: 0002231360 ISBN 13: 9780002231367
Da: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Jacket by Pinsharp (illustratore). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine and front folds slightly faded, corners slightly bruised, slight yellowing to page block, price clipped, small gift inscription to half title page, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 722pp, map endpapers. 'The Book of Abraham' is a historical novel written by French Jewish writer and activist Marek Halter (b. 1936), that documents the history (both factual and fictional) of his Jewish family. Although the early parts of the book are fictional, those parts taking place after the fifteenth century factually document the history of Marek Halter's family.
Editore: Arcade Publishing (Little, Brown, and Company), New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 1559700017 ISBN 13: 9781559700016
Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. Mary Holden (Front cover photograph) (illustratore). viii, 273, [7] pages. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Includes chapters on In the Name of Memory; An Uncommon Childhood; The Race against Death; Doing Something; Golda Meir--First Meeting; Elements; The Mysterious Liu Kuang-ya; Ben-Gurion; May 1968; Aragon and Elsa; Conference in Paris; Clara in Beirut, October 1969; East Berlin; Fouad El Shamali; Operation Eliav--Early 1970; "Where will you ride to sir?''; The Artist and Politics; Does Peace Come by way of Rome?; Mendes-France's "Little Plot"; Hope in Cairo; The Half-Victory; A Missed Appointment in London; From Harvard to Cairo; Yom Kippur; An Egyptian Woman in Israel; Time Out; Peace At Last?; Reconquering Memory; Hope in Spite of Everything; and The Tunis Affair. Also includes Index. His first book, a political autobiography, Le Fou et les Rois (The Jester and the Kings) was awarded the Prix Aujourd'hui in 1976. From 1951, when he first visited Israel, until today, Marek Halter has been both a staunch supporter of Israel and, at the same time, a fierce advocate of Arab rights. An Impossible position? Difficult, surely, but as this moving memoir shows, not impossible. This eloquent work offers both a political history of those three turbulent decades and a personal memoir attesting to the fact that one man, armed only with conviction and desire, can help change the face of history. Marek Halter is a French writer and activist, known best for his historical novels, which have been translated into English, Polish, Hebrew, and many other languages. He was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936. During World War II, he and his parents escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and fled to the Soviet Union, spending the remainder of the war in Ukraine, Moscow and finally in Kokand, in Uzbekistan. In 1946 the family returned to Poland and in 1950, they emigrated to France, taking up residence in Paris. He studied pantomime under Marcel Marceau. He was admitted to the École nationale des beaux-arts to study painting. In 1954, he received the Deauville international prize, and was also awarded a prize at the Biennale d'Ancone. His first international exhibit was in 1955 in Buenos Aires, and he remained in that city for 2 years, returning to France in 1957, where he engaged in political journalism and advocacy. Derived from a Kirkus review: A recounting of his efforts over the years to promote Arab-Israeli understanding. Here is the depiction of a man obsessed with bringing about an Arab-Israeli rapprochement. Many of the pages deal with missed opportunities, unfulfilled initiatives, chronic misunderstandings. Some of the most effective passages relate to the student riots that swept Paris in 1968. Here, Halter is able to capture in telling images the excitement and idealistic strivings of the time. Elsewhere, his book is interesting as a self-portrait of a dedicated man. First English Language Edition [stated]. First printing [stated].
Editore: Arcade Publishing, 1989
ISBN 10: 1559700769 ISBN 13: 9781559700764
Da: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!.