Published by Vintage Books, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 067972186X ISBN 13: 9780679721864
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 203 pages; 21 cm. First published under title: I Sommersi e i salvati. Translated from the Italian. Tight, clean copy. One leaf dogeared. Another copy available. "Levi wrote of the moral collapse that occurred in Auschwitz and the fallibility of human memory that allows such atrocities to recur. Levi's last book published before his death in 1987." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1989
ISBN 10: 0691085455 ISBN 13: 9780691085456
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. In price-clipped DJ, initials in marker on front free ep; Red cloth hardback. 1st printing. xviii + 68 pp. Transcript of conversation between 2 Italian intellectuals/scientists; Small 8vo; xviii + 68 pages.
Published by Schocken Books, New York, NY, 1989
ISBN 10: 0805240764 ISBN 13: 9780805240764
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. DJ is in a mylar cover.
Published by Abacus, London, 1987
ISBN 10: 0349110476 ISBN 13: 9780349110479
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Paperback. x + 214 pp. Spine slightly creased, otherwise Very Good condition. No inscriptions. No dust jacket.
Published by Schocken Books, 1989, 1989
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition As new and bright in like pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Attractive all around.
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton - New Jersey
Seller: Antiquariaat Hortus Conclusus, Den Haag, Netherlands
1989, hardcover, gebonden boek in roodlinnen band, met stofomslag, 68 paginas. Rug wat verkleurd. Please see description or ask for photos.
Published by Summit Books, 1990, 222 pp., 1990
Seller: Antiquariaat Hortus Conclusus, Den Haag, Netherlands
Hardcover gebonden boek met linnen rug, met stofomslag, tekst in het Engels, inhoud in zeer nette staat. Please see description or ask for photos.
Published by Summit books, 1989, 222 pp., 1989
Seller: Antiquariaat Hortus Conclusus, Den Haag, Netherlands
Hardcover gebonden boek met rug in linnen, met stofomslag, tekst in Engels, stofomslag licht verkleurd/kleine schaafplekjes, inhoud in nette staat. Please see description or ask for photos.
Published by Summit Books, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 0671611496 ISBN 13: 9780671611491
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Summit Books, 1989. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($18.95). Clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are crisp and clean. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. First printing with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Includes 43 delightful essays by the author of SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ, THE PERIODIC TABLE and THE MONKEY'S WRENCH. Several of the essays are autobiographical, treating the reader to glimpses of Levi's childhood summers, his grandparents, unrequited first love, experiences in the death camps, his career as a chemist, and more. Among other topics are: birds, butterflies and beetles, the leap of a flea, frogs on the moon, sidewalks, Rabelais, children's imaginary animals, the mysteries of fire and electricity, fear of snakes, qualities common to chess and poetry, psychological testing, playing children's games, using a word processor for the first time, the challenges of returning to school at the age of sixty, 60, the language of chemistry, the German poets Trakl and Celan, etc. Translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal. Bound in the original blue boards, with a black cloth spine lettered in silver. Complete with dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 223pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Published by Schocken Books, New York, NY, 1995
ISBN 10: 0805210415 ISBN 13: 9780805210415
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/a whisper of edge wear. A collection of short stories by Italian chemist, writer of Jewish heritage and Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi (1919 - 1987) First published 1975 under the title "Il Sistema Periodico"; this is the English translation. Named for the periodic table in Chemistry, the title is metaphorical. Portions are personal memoirs, and others biographical w/chapter headings such as Argon and Iron. "Sulphur", for instance, is an account of a wartime factory hand's hours on the night shift. Perhaps being a chemist, Levi is here presenting chemistry not as the "subject matter", but as what happens when humans breathe, touch, react, and interact with others. So considered, It is, then, a personal history: of a young man born into a Jewish family, educated in Facist Italy, and survives Auschwitz , A poetic work. 233 pgs in 21 chapters that mingle fact & fiction, history & anecdote to illuminate human conditions in during World War II, Europe.
Published by Summit Books, New York, NY, 1990
ISBN 10: 0671705199 ISBN 13: 9780671705190
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW Copy w/remainder mark to lower text block. Collection of 51 lyrical essays on birds, frogs, insects, parasites, children's imaginary monsters in their nonverbal universe of play, poetry, chess, . Written between 1969 & 1985 by chemist known for The Periodic Table, and The Monkey's Wrench. Levi, sent to Auschwitz in 1944 due to antifascist resistance in his native Italy, emerged with essential humaness & pleasures of the mind. This anthology serves as "a guide, a lesson, an inspiration" to the delight in living on this earth. 222 pgs. The book is a joy.
Published by Penguin Classics, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141185147 ISBN 13: 9780141185149
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. 7.56x5.04x0.55 inches. In Stock.
Published by Abacus, London, UK, 1991
ISBN 10: 034910185X ISBN 13: 9780349101859
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. viii + 209 pages. Page-edges page-yellowed o/w pages and covers very clean.
Published by Michael Joseph / Penguin Group, London, 1988
ISBN 10: 0718130634 ISBN 13: 9780718130633
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket by Cathy Morley (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE FIRST REVIEWER OF THIS BOOK TIM MILLER, IN BLACK PEN, ON FFEP 'Alan R. (?? illegible) May 1988 (from Tim)'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, some yellowing to page fore edges, slight lean, spine faded and jacket faded in strips, price clipped, no other inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall an interesting copy. 170pp. Primo Levi's attempts to understand the rationale behind the concentration camps and his survivor's guilt. Primo Michele Levi (1919-87), was an Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. Levi died in 1987 from injuries sustained in a fall from a third story apartment landing. His death was officially ruled a suicide, but some have suggested that the fall was accidental. His last book, published posthumously. Very scarce with this signature. Signed by Owner.
Published by London: Michael Joseph., 1985
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
First UK edition, first printing. Original red cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding firm with some bumping to the bottom corners and spine tips. The contents, with a grey smudge on the front free endpaper from a previously erased pencil mark and some toning to the paper stock are otherwise clean and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper which has the faint remains of a sticky label on the bottom edge of the rear panel. Not price-clipped (£9.95 on the front flap). A series of autobiographical short stories by Primo Levi, a chemist and writer, each named after a different element on the periodic table which links to the story's subject matter. The stories draw on Levi's experiences as a Jewish-Italian living under the Fascist regime in Italy and as a prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp. In 2006 it was named 'the best science book ever' by the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Published by Schocken Books, 1985
ISBN 10: 0805239294 ISBN 13: 9780805239294
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Signed, First American Edition, . Signed by the author on the front flyleaf in ink. Bound in navy blue publisher's cloth, covers are plain with silver foil lettering on the spine. Contents include: Argon, Hydrogen, Zinc, Iron, Potassium, Nickel, Lead, Mercury, Phosphorus, Gold, Cerium, Chromium, Sulfur, Titanium, Arsenic, Nitrogen, Tin, Uranium, Silver, Vanadium, and Carbon. 233 pp. Illustrated dust jacket is in turquoise blue, yellow, black and white with silhouetted figures on the cover. A black and white picture of the author is present on the back flap. A certificate of authenticity #3094037, Catalog 292, Item 757 from R&R Enterprises Autograph Auctions accompanies this book, and is laid in. FROM THE DUST JACKET FLAP: "Primo Levi is justly regarded in his native Italy as one of its leading men of letters. A chemist by profession, in this book he writes about incidents of his life in which one or another of the elements of the periodic table figured in such a way as to become a personal preoccupation. For example, vanadium: Levi was a chemist for an Italian company that imported vanadium from Germany to use in its varnish. On one occasion the shipment from the German supplier was of such a character that the batch of varnish with which it was mixed never dried. Levi wrote to his opposite number, the chemist in the German firm. After much correspondence, that person admitted that the vanadium supplied had not been up to sample, paid Levi's claim, and shipped the proper chemical. But the suspicion had been growing in Levi's mind that the man with whom he was corresponding had been the chief of a laboratory in Auschwitz in which he himself had worked as a starved and abused prisoner. What that recognition meant -- for both men -- and what happened thereafter was an ironic working out of an infamy decades old but not ended." MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Primo Levi, (1919-1987), is the author of two classic memoirs of the experience of the concentration camps, "Survival in Auschwitz" and "The Re-awakening." (Also from the dust jacket.) "A Jewish-Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Holocaust survivor, Levi was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel." (Wikipedia.)CONDITION: Both book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Completely unmarked except for author's signature. Binding is tight. A remarkable first American edition, second printing copy. PLEASE NOTE: This book will arrive with "signature required" upon delivery. Full refund if not satisfied. Signed by the Author.
Published by Schocken Books, New York, 1984
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition of thisÂclassic collection ofÂshort storiesÂbyÂPrimo Levi. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Primo Levi on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Clarke. Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Books signed by Levi are rare. The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. "I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translatedI was deeply impressed" (Saul Bellow). "Brilliant, grave and oddly sunny; certainly a masterpiece" (Los Angeles Times). In 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named it the best science book ever.