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THOMSON, IAN: : PRIMO LEVI

LONDON.HUTCHINSON,2002.

ISBN 9780091785321.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,with subject's b/w portrait photographic illustrated front of dw/dj,with capitalised,white-lettered title and author's name below title at the front's lower edge.Spine/backstrip divided horizontally with top half/head of same with repeated portrait photograph and lower white panel with author's capitalised,black-lettered name at its top and publisher's black illustrated colophon to foot of same; rear panel of dw/dj with a white background to 5 critics' reviews of author's book 'Bonjour Blanc: A Journey Through Haiti.' Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges with very light ageing/toning and faint dust flecks, fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without ageing/toning or foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristinepristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt-lettered spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband. and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,vii-xivpp+1-624pp [paginated] includes separate Contents + Illustrations lists/tables,author's Preface,29 chapters and an Epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w biographical photographs and other b/w illustrations reproductions - all in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp210/11 and pp402/03 respectively, Acknowledgements, References, Publications by Primo Levi,a Bibliography and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with title and publisher's illustrated colphon,title page, a dedication with an epigram [Alan Roos,'German Military Hospital'. The Derelict Day: Poems in Germany,1945-1946,] and to the rear,2pp blanks. Visually the external appearance is still exceptional,and particularly internally,is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's 20+ year-old age.It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite that,it really is still an exemplary example for it's brightness,cleanliness and lack of other or age-acquired detracting faults commonly encountered in a book of a comparable age.        On 11 April 1987 the Italian writer Primo Levi fell to his death in the house where he had lived for most of his life.More than 40 years after his rescue from a Nazi concentration camp,it now seemed that Levi had committed suicide.Levi's account of Auschwitz,'If This Is a Man',is now recognised as one of the essential books of mankind.No other work interrogates our recent moral history so incisively or conveys the horror of the Nazi genocide more directly and profoundly. Written with great urgency to bear witness,the book put Levi among the foremost writers of our time. Ian Thomson spent over ten years in Italy and elsewhere researching and writing this rich and definitive biography.He traced the daughter of Levi's German superior at Auschwitz along with scores of other witnesses.New light is shed on Levi's recurring depressions and vital new information is unearthed regarding the writer's premature death.A witty,resilient man,Levi had suffered dark moods long before he was deported. The suicide of his grandfather,ninety-nine years earlier,is chronicled for the first time.   Levi was a chemist and for much of his working life he ran a paint and varnish factory outside Turin.His science fantasies,essays,poems and memoirs are now loved by a wide readership for their sharp intelligence,humour and humanity. This matchless biography unravels the strands of a life caught between the factory and the typewriter,family and friends. Primo Michele Levi (b. 31st July 1919,Turin, Italy - d. 11th  Apri,1987,Turin,Italy) was a Jewish-Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. In 2015,Penguin published The Complete Works of Primo Levi,Edited by Ann Goldstein.This is the first time that Levi's entire oeuvre has been translated into English. Please contact the seller,particularly ALL overseas buyers for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes BEFORE placing your order,especially if ordering any multiples. N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE.                     ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

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