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Breaking Point
by Presser, Jacob
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Panther Books, London, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. Fair Condition. Illustrator: Leon Gregori. About the author. The text is illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Leon Gregori. Colour illustrated paperback binding with blue and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and yellow coloured titles to the back strip. This is a novel about life in a Nazi transit camp during WWII – with the only exit a weekly train to Auschwitz as an exit. It is the story about what people, who know they are going to die, but still have hope, and, what they will do to survive. A previous owner has covered the book in clear contact plastic – which has started to yellow. Multiple creases to the book corners and to the front panel. A white coloured sticker has been placed to the lower edge – underneath the contact plastic. Noticeable rubbing to the spine gado region and to the book edges. Uniform tanning of the text block edges and pages with some handling marks also present. Previous bookshop rubberstamp to the top edge of the verso of the front panel. Previous owners' rubberstamp to the top edge of the heart title page. First softcover edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 128 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Leon Gregori. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Holocaust; Judaica; WW II; Inventory No: 0126337. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0126337
- Title
- Breaking Point
- Author
- Presser, Jacob
- Illustrator
- Leon Gregori
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Panther Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- BZDB2 ficton, Auschwitz, quota, transit camp, Holocaust, Judaica Fiction; Holocaust; Judaica; WW II; Leon Gregori Unbranded Presser, Jacob Breaking Point
- Bookseller catalogs
- Judaica; Holocaust;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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