THE LAST TRAIN: EXODUS TO TASHKENT, A STORY OF LOVE BY COINCIDENCE
by Taube, Herman
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York, Exposition Press, 1966. Hardcover. Cloth. 8vo. 119 pages. 21 cm. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the title page, dated May 19, 1969. Herman Taube immigrated to the United States, where he wrote for the Jewish Daily Forward, from a European Displaced Persons camp in 1947. This novel is about a former German citizen who flees to Poland, and later to Russia, to escape the war. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Dust jacket is lightly worn with some fading on the spine. Book itself has tight binding, in very good condition. (HOLO2-31-18).
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- Bookseller
- Dan Wyman Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26222
- Title
- THE LAST TRAIN: EXODUS TO TASHKENT, A STORY OF LOVE BY COINCIDENCE
- Author
- Taube, Herman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York, Exposition Press
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Judaica Jewish, Jewry Judaism, Holocaust Shoah, Antisemitism Anti-Semitism, World War Ww Ii, Nazism Hitler, JUDENVERNICHTUNG, OK 06/12.
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