Cooler, Signed (22 results)

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Signed by author David Smith on the reverse of the front cover.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed. Inscribed by the author.

First Edition. Near Fine condition. Large wraps. First Printing. Signed by the author. Signed.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Signed/Inscribed by 3 authors on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. July 2010 hardcover stated 1st printing with full number line inscribed (it reads " Thanks Ali and Dani (or Dari) ! Rob Sheffield") by the author on the ffep. Bottom corners bumped, a little soil on edge of boards, denting on front flap as if it had been used as a bookmark, tiny fold on back flap, else fine . Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. NEW SIGNED PHOTOS SENT IF ASKED. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition stated. [xiv], [242]pp ---- Inscribed and signed by the author on title page ---- [edge wear to dust jacket] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed and Signed By the Author. Book.

Condition: Used: Very Good. SIGNED by author. VG book/ good jacket. Remainder mark.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Signed by author on main title page. The binding is tight; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED by author on half-title page, first printing, first edition. This copy includes a personal (and funny) letter to George Steinbrecher from Larry Heinemann.The binding has very minor bumping on edges and faint spots on rear panel. The dust jacket is near fine with very slight aging to edges. Contents are clean, unmarked and the book remains tightly bound. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Small 4to. Green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 242pp. Fine/near fine. Attractive, tight first edition of this humorous novel by the 1987 National Book Award winner ("Paco's Story"), with a large bold signature by the author in black fineline on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine square and tight hardcover copy in a fine and tight dustjacket/brodart covered, First Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. This is a nice, clean and bright copy. We ship all books with Delivery Confirmation. = We have been selling Used Books for over 28 years.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1992. A fine, signed collectible first edition copy of this Pulitzer Prize Award nominated novel from this Pulitzer Prize Award and PEN/Faulkner Award winning author. First Edition, First printing as indicated by "First Edition" and full number line (beginning with 1) printed on copyright page. A fine, hardcover copy, blue covered boards with sharp corners, cream covered spine with gold lettering. Book is solid, spine is tight and straight. Not ex-library, no previous owner markings, book plates, or remainder marks. Unread and looks new. Inscribed and dated on full-title page. Bright, unclipped dust jacket ($27.99 price intact) encased in Brodart Quik-Fold polyester acid-free dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author.

Condition: Very Good. First. First edition. Author has signed first page. Almost like new. Slight bend in front cover. Pages are clean and tight.Paperback. Signed by Author. book.

Boards. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, green pebble-grain boards with gold lettering and wave motif on spine, Mylar-protected cartoon decorated dust jacket (price-clipped) drawn by Nicole Hollander, [xiv] + 241, [242] pages. Larry Heinemann (born 1944) is an American novelist born and raised in Chicago. His published work-three novels and a memoir-is primarily concerned with the Vietnam War. This, his third novel, COOLER BY THE LAKE (1992), is a comic story about Chicago and a well-intentioned petty thief. SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: tight, bright, clean with comparable dj. No remainder marks.

Original Wraps. Condition: As New. 1st Can Ed. Growing and using lavender 92p. illus [some col] bibliography . Author inscription on title page, Else new. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. *SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR*. THIS BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition. A novel that is "an affectionate, tongue-in-cheek portrait of the great city of Chicago." INSCRIBED and SIGNED in 1992 by the author on the title page: "Don't take any wooden nickels." Also laid in is an AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED (ANS) with the same date and to the same recipient wishing them both a happy and prosperous New Year. Mild foxing to the top bulked text edge, slight bump to the bottom front corner. Near Fine in a Fine duswrapper.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof. SIGNED by author on half-title page. "Cooler by the Lake is the story of Maximilian Nutmeg, a character who might have walked out of a cartoon." Ships same or next business day. Book has minimal edge wear, faded on spine; otherwise, free from major defect. Protected in archival plastic bag. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 233 pages; Signed by Author.

Trade paperback. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xx [2], 219, [3] pages. Glossary. Index. Front cover has some wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page The inscription reads: "For Nessa who has come to listen & will share with others, E. P. Maryland MARCH 2012". A survivor of concentration camps and the Death March, Eli Pfefferkorn looks back on his Holocaust and post-Holocaust experiences to compare patterns of human behavior in extremis with those of ordinary life. What he finds is that the concentration camp inmate Müselmann, who has lost his hunger for life and is thus shunned by his fellow inmates on the soup line, bears an eerie resemblance to an office employee who has fallen from grace and whose coworkers avoid spending time with him at the water cooler. Though the circumstances are unfathomably far apart, the human response to their situations is triggered by self-preservation rather than by calculated evil. By juxtaposing these two separate worlds, Pfefferkorn demonstrates that the human condition has not changed significantly since Cain slew Abel and the Athenians sentenced Socrates. Winner of the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award in Holocaust Literature. Eli Pfefferkorn (Ph.D. Brown University) has served as Director of Research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, worked as a reviewer for the Literary Supplement of Haaretz, and edited the periodical "Hebrew Literature in Translation." He has worked as a professor at Haifa and Tel-Aviv Universities and has been a guest lecturer at Brown University. He is also the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship. Since the passage of time plays tricks with memory, memoirs written in proximity to the Holocaust ordinarily are given greater credence than later works. One would imagine that a survivor's account written more than 65 years after the Holocaust could not find a place in the canon of Holocaust literature, yet Eli Pfefferkorn's "The Muselmann at the Water Cooler" is indeed a significant addition. The word "Muselmann" was how prisoners described the walking dead, who had given into despair and for whom selection to the gas chamber seemed inevitable. Yoking that image to the workaday water cooler gives some idea of the disjunction of experience that Pfefferkorn portrays. His Holocaust experience included ghettoization, hiding and, ultimately, deportation to Majdanek, whose former inmates have written few memoirs. Rather than go to Palestine after the war, he went to England. Still a very young man, with a long future seemingly ahead of him, Eli's restlessness attracted him to the sea. He sought training as a merchant marine. His training attracted the attention of the Zionists, who were preparing for the inevitable War of Independence and sought his seamanship to defend the coastline. Drawn to Palestine by a sense of duty to the past rather than any Zionist aspirations, Eli found himself fighting far from the sea, in the sands of the Negev. Pfefferkorn slowly made his way into Israeli society from the extreme left, gradually undergoing a self-described process of embourgeoisement. Pfefferkorn's insight into Israeli society of the 1950s and '60s reminds us of a bygone era, of its aspirations and pretentions, intellectual and otherwise. Writing in literary journals and in the Friday newspaper literary supplements, he defended a fellow survivor ridiculed by the Canaanites. Elie Wiesel was reviled by earlier Israeli generations for remaining in France and America rather than making aliyah. Pfefferkorn, who worked closely with Wiesel during the early 1980s, when the latter was chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, recounts some of the controversies relating to Wiesel's chairmanship and his resignation en route to accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. The core of this book is not what happened to Pfefferkorn either before or after the war, but rather during the Shoah and his provocative reflections on its implications. His vantage point was unique. His ghetto and camp experiences brought him into close proximity with the killers. In the Radsyn-Podlaski ghetto in German-occupied Poland, Pfefferkorn worked as a sort of "gofer" for the chief of police. At Majdanek, he worked in the mansion of the commandant of the concentration camp, offering Pfefferkorn yet another opportunity to encounter the killers in the intimacy of their homes. It enabled him to observe and thus to see the perpetrators not only as distant monsters but as men and women of flesh and blood. His revulsion at their deeds is no less intense; his understanding of them as people is subtle and nuanced. Pfefferkorn's most compelling insight is that the Holocaust is an expression in the extreme of what is common to the mainstream of civilization. He is surely not the first to suggest this as a perspective from which to understand the Holocaust, but his argument is compelling. The concentration camps were invented and operated by humans and human depravity does not begin or end with the concentration camps. He defends the prerogatives of survivors but refuses to ennoble their suffering or to lionize them: Suffering is not necessarily a morally refining agent that turns apathy into compassion, greed into generosity, meanness into graciousness and ambition into humility. For a very long time, Pfefferkorn denied his experience in the Shoah. For one who denied being a survivor for so long, it is ironic that Pfefferkorn insists on the distinction between knowing about it and knowing it, which only comes after a direct encounter with the human instruments of evil. "The Muselmann at the Water Cooler" is a major and enduring contribution not only to survivor literature but also to our understanding of that evil. There are many memoirs of Auschwitz, far fewer of Majdanek. Only a handful of works have been written by survivors who lived in close proximity to the killers and saw them at leisure as well as at work. Pfefferkorn was there to observe, and he prepared a li.

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