Counting Steps by Jakov Lind (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. an autobiography. Former library book. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. The hinges have been meanded preserving the original covers and spine. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very clean and well preserved copy. Binding is tight, text is free of any markings.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Printing. DJ has some edge wear and is price-clipped.

Condition: 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. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

Condition: Good. This copy is in Good condition ? a loved and well-read book with visible signs of use. The text is fully readable and complete with no missing pages. There may be some cover wear, mild creasing to the spine, or minor marks inside, but nothing that detracts from the reading experience. Every book we list is individually hand-checked by our team at Kisharon Langdon New Chapters. We take pride in honest, accurate grading ? what you read is what you receive. New Chapters is a social enterprise supporting people with Learning Disabilities and Autistic People into meaningful work. Your purchase makes a real difference.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Slight shelf wear, otherwise tight, bright and clean. DJ Price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: 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. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good or better in very good dust jacket. Hardcover has dust jacket with 1 inch closed tear top front, chipped at spine.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. Originally published in hard covers by Jonathan Cape in 1970. There is edge rubbing to the spine and the corners with a one inch crease to the bottom right corner of the front cover. The pages edges are browned. The text block is cracked at page 52 but the pages are secure. Browning to the insides of the covers and the pages which are otherwise clean and unmarked. Cover design by Ken Carroll. First printing. Postage will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Carroll, Ken (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First printing. Previous owner's blind stamp on front free endpaper, else fine in a very near fine, price clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good hardcover in clipped, little edge-worn and nicked dust jacket. First Edition. Clean pages. Little spot stain, rear free endpaper.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Frayed DJ. First Printing. 223pp. "An Autobiography" (loc 1009/1).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. PRICE CLIPPED.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Paperback with a jacket. The jacket is a bit sunned and edgeworn. Minor creasing. Soundly bound. This is a pre-publication copy; please enquire about edition before ordering. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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).…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Scuffing to page edges. Creasing and folding to front flap. Shelf wear. Edge wear.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

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

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

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

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A near fine first edition of Jakov Lind"s two autobiographies, both the author"s presentation copy to the publisher Tom Maschler. The first edition of these works. Two autobiographical works by Jakov Lind. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. Author"s presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the recto to the front endpaper of each volume. Tom Maschler"s bookplate to the front pastedowns. Maschler is a publisher who worked for Jonathan Cape, who discovered and published authors including Ian McEwan and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Both of these works are insightful autobiographies, following the author during his youth. Written by Jakov Lind, an Austrian-British author. In the original publisher"s quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, near fine, with a small amount of bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and just a couple of marks to the boards. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Author"s inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Dustwrapper with some minor edgewear, minor sunning to the spine, and a few minor marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. None (illustrator). signed by author. book.…