Crystal Night, 9-10 November 1938 Tapa dura - 1974

Lon.: Thames. a history of the first nation-wide pogrom against the Jews in Germany . Near Fine. Hardcover. First. 1974.

UK: Thames and Hudson, 1974. Hardcover. Good/Good. 5.5" X 9. H/B 192 pages, condition is Good, this is an ex library book with the usual stamps, the flyleaf has been removed. Early in November 1938 Herschel Grynszpan, a young German Jew of Polish origin living in Paris, learned that his family had been expelled by the Nazis from their home in Germany and, with thousands of other Polish-born Jews, deported to Poland. Moved by anguish at the plight of his family and race, Grynszpan walked into the German Embassy on 7 November and shot the Third Secretary, Ernst vom Rath, who died two days later. Using the murder as a pretext, Hitler ordered the SS and SA, with the connivance of the police and fire services, to launch the first nation-wide pogrom against the Jews in Germany on the night of 9-10 November (since known as 'Crystal Night', on account of the quantity of shattered glass found in city streets in the morning). Synagogues were burned down, Jewish shops were wrecked and looted, many… Leer más

Thames and Hudson, 1974-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1974. First UK Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 192pp, index. The first Nazi pogrom against the German Jews. Size: 8vo

Thames & Hudson, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 192 pages; Physical desc. : 192 p. ; 23 cm. Translation of La nuit de cristal: 9-10 Novembre 1938. Published 1972. Complete with a comprehensive bibliography: p. 182-186. Subject: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Kristallnacht, 1938. Jews - Persecutions. Crystal Night, 1938. Antisemitism - Germany

Thames and Hudson, 1974-01-01. Hardcover. Like New. 9x6x1. Book is like new. Dust jacket missing. Has light shelf wear.

London : Thames and Hudson, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 192 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Kristallnacht (1938).

Thames & Hudson, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Introduction by authors, notes to text, selective bibliography and index. Burgundy coloured boards with gilt embossed publisher's logo to the front panel and gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Nominally a popular protest at the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris by a a young Jewish man, but, in fact was a government-inspired pogrom in reaction to boycotts by the British and US of German goods. Synagogues were burned and hundreds of Jews were sent to detention camps– this was the intensifying of the Nazi regime's clamping down on Jewish businesses and people . Rubbing of the book edges. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. Previous owner's blind stamp "stamp" to the lower right-hand corner of the title page of Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.