Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

Timerman, Jacobo; Toby Talbot, translator

ISBN 10: 0394514483 / ISBN 13: 9780394514482

Published by Alfred A. Knopf Inc., a Borzoi Book, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1981

About this Item

Alfred A. Knopf Inc., a Borzoi Book, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1981. First (1st) Printing (none others stated) of the "First edition" (stated). Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. Appears Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square, with deckled fore-edges, mild foxing to top-edge, and no markings of any kind. The Binding is off-white quarter cloth to gray boards, author's name blindstamped on front board, bright silver title, etc., to spine, unmarked, white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is bright and intact with a tiny 4 mm. tear on the top of the rear panel, discreetly closed from behind with archival (pH neutral) materials, and price-clipped. See photos. 164 + i pages. 5 7/8" x 8 1/2". Translated from the Spanish Preso sin nombre, celda sin número, 1980, by Toby Talbot, this memoir tells the story of Jacobo Timerman, an Argentine journalist who was imprisoned and tortured for two years (1977-1979) by the Argentine military junta dictatorship during the Dirty War, which lasted from 1974 to 1983, and in which many thousands of people were "disappeared". The book received the following awards: Conscience-in-Media Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, Hillman Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Events, Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award from the Institute for Policy Studies, Peabody Award ISBN 10: 0394514483 / ISBN 13: 9780394514482.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., a Borzoi Book, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394514483
• ISBN 13: 9780394514482
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

The exiled Argentine newspaper publisher details his advocacy of human rights, his 1977 arrest, his thirtymonths of imprisonment, interrogation, and torture, the revocation of his citizenship, and his expulsion from Argentina

From the Publisher

"It ranks with Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem in its examination of the totalitarian mind."
--The Village Voice