If This Is A Man.
"Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization": First Edition of Primo Levi’s Classic If This Is A Man; Signed by Him
If This Is A Man.
LEVI, Primo; Translated by Stuart Woolf.
Item Number: 3767
New York: The Orion Press, 1959.
First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Later published as “Survival in Auschwitz.” Fine in a very good dust jacket. Signed by Primo Levi on the title page. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Primo Levi's 'If This Is a Man' has been described as one of the most important literary works of the twentieth century. It describes the year Levi spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz, the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. "He was himself a magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known" (Philip Roth). The Times Literary Supplement proclaimed that "[i]t has the inevitability of the true work of art."
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