HERSEY, John. The Wall. London: Hamish Hamilton. 1950. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the excellent dust jacket, a wraparound design by the inimitable Barnett Freedman. A superb example. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the topstain bright. The contents clean and fine throughout but for previous owner signature in ink to front endpaper. The dust jacket price-clipped, just a trifle bumped at corners and spine tips, but a very pleasing example of a book that is often rather bruised.
The author’s comprehensive novel of the Nazi occupation of Poland, and in particular of forty individuals who, together and alone, endure starvation, persecution, and death in the Warsaw ghetto, the novel telling of their escape and fight for survival.
HERSEY, John. The Wall. London: Hamish Hamilton. 1950. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the excellent dust jacket, a wraparound design by the inimitable Barnett Freedman. A superb example. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the topstain bright. The contents clean and fine throughout but for previous owner signature in ink to front endpaper. The dust jacket price-clipped, just a trifle bumped at corners and spine tips, but a very pleasing example of a book that is often rather bruised.
The author’s comprehensive novel of the Nazi occupation of Poland, and in particular of forty individuals who, together and alone, endure starvation, persecution, and death in the Warsaw ghetto, the novel telling of their escape and fight for survival.
