Day by Odd Nansen, Signed (9 results)

hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Inscribed by author, Timothy J. Boyce. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Signed by Timothy Boyce (editor and annotator) on title page. Binding is tight. Pages unmarked and bright. Black cloth cover has minimal wear. Dustjacket has minor wear to edges, but is otherwise fine. ; 7.3 X 2.2 X 10.1 inches; 624 pages; Signed by Editor.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed by Editor. Very Good black boards with silver lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; Contents clean and unmarked, except for inscription and signature by editor on title page and ex-library stamps on half title page. VG dust jacket not price clipped. 616 pp. Includes index. Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by the editor, Timothy J Boyce, in ink at title page. 10 1/4" X 7 1/4". 616pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine backed in maroon and lettered in silver. Gentle bumps to corners of boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This new hardcover edition of Odd Nansen's diary, the first in over sixty-five years, contains extensive annotations and other material not found in any other hardcover or paperback versions. Nansen, a Norwegian, was arrested in 1942 by the Nazis, and spent the remainder of World War II in concentration camps--Grini in Oslo, Veidal above the Arctic Circle, and Sachsenhausen in Germany. For three and a half years, Nansen kept a secret diary on tissue-paper-thin pages later smuggled out by various means, including inside the prisoners' hollowed-out breadboards. Unlike writers of retrospective Holocaust memoirs, Nansen recorded the mundane and horrific details of camp life as they happened, "from day to day." With an unsparing eye, Nansen described the casual brutality and random terror that was the fate of a camp prisoner. His entries reveal his constantly frustrated hopes for an early end to the war, his longing for his wife and children, his horror at the especially barbaric treatment reserved for Jews, and his disgust at the anti-Semitism of some of his fellow Norwegians. Nansen often confronted his German jailors with unusual outspokenness and sometimes with a sense of humor and absurdity that was not appreciated by his captors. After the Putnam's edition received rave reviews in 1949, the book fell into obscurity. In 1956, in response to a poll about the "most undeservedly neglected" book of the preceding quarter-century, Carl Sandburg singled out From Day to Day, calling it "an epic narrative," which took "its place among the great affirmations of the power of the human spirit to rise above terror, torture, and death." Indeed, Nansen witnessed all the horrors of the camps, yet still saw hope for the future. He sought reconciliation with the German people, even donating the proceeds of the German edition of his book to German refugee relief work. Nansen was following in the footsteps of his father, Fridtjof, an Arctic explorer and humanitarian who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work on behalf of World War I refugees. (Fridtjof also created the "Nansen passport" for stateless persons.) Forty sketches of camp life and death by Nansen, an architect and talented draftsman, provide a sense of immediacy and acute observation matched by the diary entries. The preface is written by Thomas Buergenthal, who was "Tommy," the ten-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz Death March, whom Nansen met at Sachsenhausen and saved using his extra food rations. Buergenthal, author of A Lucky Child, formerly served as a judge on the International Court of Justice at The Hague and is a recipient of the 2015 Elie Wiesel Award from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.(Publisher). Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. 606pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Signed by the editor Timothy J. Boyce on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing stated. A near fine copy with a small black x on inside back cover in a fine DJ, now protected in removable archival mylar. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #53. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Like new hardback in very good DJ, doesn't seem to have been read, signed and inscribed by author ; 7.25 x 10.5; 616 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. First Editin, First Printing. First Printing Fine in 1/4 maroon cloth and black cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 10 by 7 inches. The contents are bright and clean with no evidence that this copy has been read or marked up with any prior ownership notes or book plates. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. Signed without an inscription by the editor, Timothy J. Boyce, on the title page. 616 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated throughout with sketches by Odd Nansen and with a section of black and white images from photographs. The original publication was first published in 1949 by G. P. Putnam's Sons of New York based on a translation from the Norwegian by Katherine John. Although that publication received rave reviews it fell into obscurity rather quickly after the war. The editor, wishing to revive the book, added significantly to this republication with extensive notes, footnotes all gathered from deep research and travel. This publication contains a preface by Thomas Buergenthal who met and was cared for by Nansen in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Hardcover. First Editin, First Printing. First Printing Fine in 1/4 maroon cloth and black cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 10 by 7 inches. The contents are bright and clean with no evidence that this copy has been read or marked up with any prior ownership notes or book plates. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the editor, Timothy J. Boyce, on the title page. 616 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated throughout with sketches by Odd Nansen and with a section of black and white images from photographs. The original publication was first published in 1949 by G. P. Putnam's Sons of New York based on a translation from the Norwegian by Katherine John. Although that publication received rave reviews it fell into obscurity rather quickly after the war. The editor, wishing to revive the book, added significantly to this republication with extensive notes, footnotes all gathered from deep research and travel. This publication contains a preface by Thomas Buergenthal who met and was cared for by Nansen in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.