Numbers by Lind Jakov (22 results)

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

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First U.K. Edition. First U.K. Edition. NF/VG+. Hardcover, blue cloth, DJ, 140 pp, light edgewear with slight bumping to corners and spine ends of jacket, otherwise a clean and tight copy.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York, 1972; blue cloth covered boards; white cloth spine; corners lightly bumped; edge wear; illustrated jacket with edge and corner wear; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 140 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped (£1.95 price intact). Published by Jonathan, 1972. Octavo. Hardcover. Blue topstain. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover. Condition: near FINE. A near FINE tight copy in a near FINE bright dj , 1st Edition.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 140 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in an about Very good dust jacket. Light yellowing. Dustwrapper rubbed with creasing, tearing, some wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Like New first edition hardcover is in clean condition. The dust jacket is Good with some wearing on the spine ends and corners and top edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good or better in an about Very good dust jacket. Dustwrapper rubbed with fading, creasing.

Condition: Very Good. DUST JACKET BIT CURLED AROUND THE TOP, BIT TORN, AND A BIT WORN. Sold by the U.K Charity Kisharon Langdon. Offering Opportunities and Support for People within the Autism and Learning Disability Community.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Jacket has chipping and some small tears, Dust jacket covered in protective mylar sleeve. Binding tight and square, Pages are clean and unmarked. Signed By Author.

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 Jakov Lind 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 blue (as called for). Pages clean. No foxing. No inscriptions. Very slight spine lean. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour illustrated textured dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £1.95 net. Edges of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed. No fading. No tears. Dustwrapper bright. ***140 pages. 224mm x 142mm. ***'On the quay at Marseilles, with only thirty-five dollars in his pocket, stands Jakov Lind, aged twenty-three, former Jew and now citizen of the world. Having survived the Holocaust and laid his duty to Israel, Lind sets out to discover an identity which war, and the factions of war, once threatened with extinction. ***Lind's 'celebrations of victory' take him across half of Europe. A tireless and dedicated sexual performer, his exploits are soon legendary. In between performances, he is accepted as a drama student at the Max Reinhardt College in Vienna. He works for Allied Censorship; he stacks barrels of sauerkraut; he plies a photographer's trade; he turns private detective; but it is to writing, 'a free man's occupation', that he is increasingly drawn. On his exuberant odyssey, his companions are freaks, drop-outs and beautiful girls - like Sonya and Grete in Amsterdam, who prefer their own company to his; Sophia in Stockholm, a girl so poor that she eats paper for breakfast and Elphants Bush, the crazy white Russian whose mad compulsion to talk is as great as Lind's insane desire to listen. ***As Counting My Steps, the first book of Lind's autobiography, was a story of survival, so Numbers is a story of discovery. The young Lind, adrift in the chaos of post-war Europe, finds and learns to ride the terrifying currents within himself. His life and thoughts are revealed with candour, irony and stylistic brilliance.' (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 second volume of autobiography Numbers was the second 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).…

8°, Halbleinen. Condition: Gut. First Edition. 140 S., Gebundenes Buch mit Original-Schutzumschlag. Gewidmet und signiert auf dem Deckblatt. Das Buch ist in gutem, sauberen Zustand. Due to new EU packaging regulations, we are currently unable to ship to many EU countries. Shipping to Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Finland, and the Baltic states is possible. Deliveries to border-based parcel lockers or cross-border parcel forwarding services remain possible. Shipping to all countries outside the EU also remains possible. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 380.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition, First Printing. 140pp. Hardcover. Octavo. Author's second volume of the memoir he began with "Counting My Steps". Lind is also responsible for the illustration of the dust jacket. Book is Near Fine in a Very Good+ jacket, showing the beginings of wear to the extremities.…

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over blue boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8¾" x 5½" (0.7 kg); pp (xi) 140; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #200160 ||.…

Condition: VG. NY 1982 1st (stated) Harper & Roe. Hardcover. Octavo, 140pp., cloth. Inscribed and signed by Jakov Lind on the front free blank/ VG in VG DJ, very light edge wear.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains.; 160 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Numbers: A Further Autobiography is the companion volume to Counting My Steps, the first book of Lind's autobiography. 'As Counting My Steps, was a story of survival, so Numbers is a story of discovery. The young Lind, adrift in the chaos of post-war Europe, finds and learns to ride the terrifying currents within himself. His life and thoughts are revealed with candour, irony and stylistic brilliance.' 8vo, First Edition, v.good, contains mauve slip from Jonathan Cape stating that it was submitted as a review copy. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering to spine. Internally clear and tight, slight age toning. D/j v.good, all four internal corners clipped, but price remains intact. A very good copy. …

Condition: Wie neu. Octavo. 172 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. First British edition of the second part of his autobiography. Inscribed / signed by Jakov Lind. Jakov Lind (born Heinz Jakov Landwirth, 10 February 1927 in Vienna - 16 February 2007 in London) was an Austrian-British writer of short stories and novels. After the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, Jews were immediately targeted by the new Nazi regime with anti-Semitic decrees designed to make their lives untenable and force them to leave Austria. The decrees included prohibition of using public transportation, of being employed, and of operating businesses. Jews were expelled from schools and universities, had their businesses "Aryanized", a euphemism for their theft and confiscation by the Nazi regime, and were harassed with washing street signs of the previous regime in front of cheering and violent mobs. Eventually they were forced out of their apartments and prevented from leaving the country by themselves. While sitting in a cafe, Lind's father was picked up and arrested by the Gestapo, and shortly afterwards the family was ordered to evacuate their apartment within 24 hours. On the run, his mother managed to find a place for Lind and two sisters on a "Kindertransport" bound to the Netherlands. After Lind's father was somehow released, his parents struggled to leave Austria on a Danube barge bound for the Black Sea. There they boarded the ship Patria which was sunk with great loss of lives at Haifa Port in November 1940 by the Hagana in an effort to prevent the British from turning it back to Europe. As a child of 11 years in the Netherlands, Lind stayed initially in a children home in The Hague with his two sisters, but after a few months the siblings were separated and Lind moved in with a foster family who was paid by a Jewish organization towards his upkeep. After the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands on 10 May 1940, the situation became difficult for the family, and Lind had to leave. He spent various time periods with different families as well as in a youth center in Gouda. Lind moved to Amsterdam and stayed with the family Granaat, first in their home in Amsterdam South, then joining them when they were forced to evacuate their apartment and move into the Jewish Ghetto. During a roundup and deportation of Jews from the Ghetto in 1943, the family obeyed orders to leave the apartment and board lorries bound to Westerbork, while Lind stayed behind in hiding. On the run, Lind was able to obtain a false identity card bearing the name of Jan Gerrit Overbeek. Assuming this identity, Lind worked in different jobs in the Netherlands, and then decided to take a job on a German barge carrying coal into Germany. Lind succeeded in surviving inside Nazi Germany. Of this period, Lind later wrote, "As Jan Gerrit Overbeek, I felt safe for the first time. It is crazy, walking around freely when one really should be sitting in a concentration camp. Crazy, perhaps, but a craziness that made me content, and happy." In 1945, Jan Gerrit Overbeek became Jakov Chaklan, and he made his way to Haifa. After a literary apprenticeship, a marriage, and the birth of a son, he moved to Vienna for three years. Finally, 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. On switching to English, Lind wrote that he was "Madder than anything.to think I could ever unlearn sounds I knew by heart and kidneys and replace them with other and better sounds." His stories have been translated into English, German, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Finnish, Spanish, Hungarian, and Czech. His work been adapted into plays, operas, and films. A collection of essays about his life and writin.…

XI, 140 S., OPappband. Erste Ausgabe.

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.…