Night.

WIESEL, Elie.

Item Number: 46044

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1960.

First British edition of Wiesel’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Foreword by Francois Mauriac. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Elie Wiesel on the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp example.

"If only I could get rid of this dead weightImmediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever" wrote Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel in reference to his dying father. Night relays Wiesel's experience as a prisoner in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944-1945. Wiesel witnessed the inversion of convention and destruction of values. He writes, "here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friendseveryone lives and dies for himself alone." "To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record" (Alfred Kazin).