Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story.

WIESENTHAL, Simon.

$200.00

Item Number: 147051

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982.

First edition of this glorious love story. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “To Joseph Lichten most cordially Simon Wiesenthal August 82.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Translated by Catherine Hutter.

Max and Helen relates the remarkable story of two Holocaust survivors who persuaded Wiesenthal not to pursue their Nazi tormentor, Werner SchultzeIt. It is the basis for the 1990 film directed by Philip Saville and written by Corey Blechman, starring Treat Williams, Alice Krige, Martin Landau, Jonny Phillips, Adam Kotz and Jodhi May.