Item #47746 They'll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist's Coming of Age in the Third Reich [Signed]. Irene Awret, Walter Laqueur, fwd.
They'll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist's Coming of Age in the Third Reich [Signed]

They'll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist's Coming of Age in the Third Reich [Signed]

Madison, WI / Takoma Park, MD: University of Wisconsin Press / Dryad Press, 2004. Very Good - / Very Good. Item #47746
ISBN: 0299188302

Madison, WI / Takoma Park, MD: University of Wisconsin Press / Dryad Press, 2004. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (23.5cm); illustrated dust jacket; publisher's green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine; [xviii],320pp; b&w illus and 8pp color plates. Jacket rubbed along top edge with creasing to flaps. Brief bump along lower front board; twist to spine. Binding sound and pages unmarked.

Signed by the author without inscription on tipped-in half title. Having grown up in post-WWI Berlin, Awret began her studies in art before fleeing to Brussels as the Nazis rose to power. She was arrested and imprisoned a Gestapo transit camp in Mechelen. After liberation, she emigrated to Israel and founded an art colony in Safed, then eventually moved to the United States in the 1970s.

Price: $75.00