Numbers - Hardcover

NUMBERS: A FURTHER AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Jakov Lind [Jacket illustration] (illustrator). 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. Artikel-Nr. 6259

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