Karski Jan Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Houghton Mifflin. New York. 1944. 391 pages. SIGNED. First edition, first printing, with 1944 date present on the title page, and no later printings on copyright page. Signed by author Jan Karski, on the title page. Book is fine. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Red cloth stamped with black titles. Pages and endpapers are bright and clean. No writing within. Previous owner's bookplate neatly adhered to FFEP. Date stamp hidden underneath rear DJ flap at base of rear pastedown. Original DJ is bright and attractive with a WWII wartime paper conservation stamp on base of rear flap. Minimal minor shelf-rubbing along DJ edges. A couple of minor, faint crease lines on rear of DJ. Published while WWII was still being fought, this is Karski's harrowing firsthand account, informing the world of the current annihilation of the Jews taking place, along with the Poles, in the Warsaw Ghetto; and his efforts to bring world leaders together, to stop the Holocaust; including having met face to face, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His efforts as a Polish underground fighter, a courier for the Allies, his infiltration of death camps, escaping as a POW, among many other exploits that illustrate the incredible efforts one man has made, to try and stop the Holocaust. Karski was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, the highest Polish civil decoration, and the Order Virtuti Militari, the highest military decoration awarded for bravery in combat. The Presidential Medal of Freedom, serving as the highest civilian honor in America, in addition to Righteous Among the Nations, in Jerusalem, honorary citizen of the nation of Israel; and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize; in addition to countless other recognitions, including the corner of 37th Street and Madison Avenue being renamed Jan Karski Corner. This is Karski's remarkable Story of a Secret State; first edition, first printing; signed. Fine/VG++. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Jan Karski upon front free endpaper. Karski [1914-2000] recounts his experiences when his homeland of Poland was rent asunder by the joint Nazi and Soviet invasion of 1939, and his harrowing subsequent life as a member of the Polish underground, during which he was captured by the Gestapo and severely tortured. Provides a ghastly eyewitness account of life in the Warsaw ghetto, into which Karski was smuggled so his observations could be reported to the outside world. Firearms advocates will cringe at Karski's account of what happened after he and a large group of Polish soldiers handed over their weapons to their 'comrades' from the Soviet Union. In 2012 Karski was posthumously awarded America's highest civilan honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Obama. 391 pages. Moderate wear to publisher's red cloth. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Binding intact. A sound copy of this truly unforgettable WWII narrative. Laska 672, Kehr & Langmaid 5407, Weiner Library Catalogue Seven 997, Enser p.343.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Polish Underground - World War 1939-1945, Gestapo Torture, Warsaw Ghetto, Poland Resistance, Espionage Polska, Holocaust; Signed by Author(s).…