The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941-1942 Tapa dura - 2007

Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 2007. Hard Cover. First Edition. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good..

Sydney: Picador. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First thus.. Hardcover. 0330423401 . With many illustrations, A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Not since Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light. As a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, Petr Ginz dutifully kept a diary that captured the increasingly precarious texture of daily life. Petr was killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz at the age of sixteen, and his diaries—recently discovered in a Prague attic under extraordinary circumstances—now read as the prescient eyewitness account of a meticulous observer. Petr was a young prodigy—a budding artist and writer whose paintings, drawings, and writings reflect his insatiable appetite for learning and experience. He records the grim facts of his everyday life with a child’s keen eye for the absurd and the tragic. ; 225 x 175mm; xii,… Leer más

Pan Books, UK, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Hardcover. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, UK, 2007. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in fine dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. . Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. This book is an unread copy. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Not since Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light. In 1941, Petr Ginz was a young teenager living in Prague with his parents and sister. Adventurous, artistic and optimistic, he wrote poems and novels and edited a children's magazine inside the work camp at Theresienstadt. Originally written in his own special code-language, Petr's diaries describe daily life for the Ginz family and document the… Leer más

Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia, Australia, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. minimal shelf wear, dust jacket not price clipped, in protective cover, a very nice copy,seems unread Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0330423401. ISBN/EAN: 9780330423403. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 101095. . 9780330423403

Pan Macmillan, Australia, 2007. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Hardcover. 176 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Macmillan, Australia, 2007. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in as new condition and comes in fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. This book is an unread copy. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Not since Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light. In 1941, Petr Ginz was a young teenager living in Prague with his parents and sister. Adventurous, artistic and optimistic, he wrote poems and novels and edited a children's magazine inside the work camp at Theresienstadt. Originally written in his own special code-language, Petr's diaries describe daily life for the Ginz family and document the introduction of anti-Jewish laws from a young adult's… Leer más