When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, 4th impression - SIGNED

Kerr Judith

ISBN 10: 0001849131 / ISBN 13: 9780001849136

Published by Collins, London, 1981

About this Item

191pp, fourth impression, original publisher's red cloth with silver lettering to spine, binding firm, pages clean, only very ocassionally spotted internally as shown, but very scarce marks otherwise, in very good condition. Illustrated by the author in black and white line drawings.

This is a lovely, very good presentation copy of Judith Kerr's semi-autobiographical novel, given by the author to her close friend Cary Kloetzel. Kloetzel was the daughter of a children's book author who fled Nazi Germany. The archive of the Kloetzel family (The Kloetzel Collection), kept at The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem, contains letters and postcards between Cary and Judith Kerr. A rare personal copy, signed by Judith Kerr with thanks for receiving photographs of her father from Cary.

Signed and inscribed by the author, a poignant personal association copy.

Seller Inventory # LD009

Bibliographic Details

• Title: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, 4th impression - SIGNED
• Publisher: Collins, London
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0001849131
• ISBN 13: 9780001849136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Kerr, Judith
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Dimensions: 14.5W x 21.5H x 0D centimeters 14.5 centimeters width by 21.5 centimeters height by 0 centimeters depth
• Weight: 374 grams
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed by author

About this title

Synopsis

Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was one of those people. That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busy with her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice of political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler, the man who would soon change the whole of Europe – starting with her own small life. Anna suddenly found things moving too fast for her to understand. One day, her father was unaccountably missing. Then she herself and her brother Max were being rushed by their mother, in alarming secrecy, away from everything they knew – home and schoolmates and well-loved toys – right out of Germany…

From the Publisher

Anna was only nine years old in 1933, too busy with her school work and friends to take much notice of Adolf Hitler's face glaring out of political posters all over Berlin. Being Jewish, she thought, was just something you were because your parents and grandparents were Jewish. But then one day her father was unaccountably, frighteningly missing. Soon after, she and her brother, Max, were hurried out of Germany by their mother with alarming secrecy.

Reunited in Switzerland, Anna and her family embark on an adventure that would go on for years, in several different countries. They learn many new things: new languages, how to cope with the wildest confusions, and how to be poor. Anna soon discovers that there are special skills to being a refugee. And as long as the family stayed together, that was all that really mattered.