Lind, Jakov — The Inventor

New York, George Braziller, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Printing of the First Edition. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Two-tone, olive-drab paper over boards, gray cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. The writer Jakov Lind, who has died aged 80, came close to being silenced by the Holocaust long before his professional writing career began. Jakov Lind was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, but left Austria following the Anschluss (the Nazi annexation of his homeland) in 1938 and didn't return to his homeland until after W.W.I.I. [1], 11-143 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,