THE FIFTH SON by Elie Wiesel 1985 Signed First Edition Leather Franklin Library

Description: The Franklin Library - (Limited, Signed First Edition) - by Elie Wiesel- (1928 - 2016) - "The Fifth Son" 1985 Imprisonment and orphaning during the Holocaust Buchenwald concentration camp, photo taken April 16, 1945, five days after liberation of the camp. Wiesel is in the second row from the bottom, seventh from the left, next to the bunk post.[16] In March 1944, Germany occupied Hungary, thus extending the Holocaust into Northern Transylvania as well. Wiesel was 15, and he, with his family, along with the rest of the town's Jewish population, was placed in one of the two confinement ghettos set up in Mramarossziget, the town where he had been born and raised. In May 1944, the Hungarian authorities, under German pressure, began to deport the Jewish community to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where up to 90 percent of the people were murdered on arrival. Immediately after they were sent to Auschwitz, his mother and his younger sister were murdered. Wiesel and his father were selected to perform labor so long as they remained able-bodied, after which they were to be murdered in the gas chambers. Wiesel and his father were later deported to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. Until that transfer, his primary motivation for trying to survive Auschwitz was knowing that his father was still alive: "I knew that if I died, he would die." After they were taken to Buchenwald, his father died before the camp was liberated. In Night, Wiesel recalled the shame he felt when he heard his father being beaten and was unable to help. Wiesel was tattooed with inmate number " A-7713" on his left arm. The camp was liberated by the U.S. Third Army on April 11, 1945, when they were just prepared to be evacuated from Buchenwald. Collector's Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Luxury Edition, Leather, Gold Gilt, Satin Ribbon Bookmark, Acid-free Paper, Archival Standards, made in the USA, Vintage, Gold Embossed, marbled end leaves, Hubbed spine, Smyth-sewn Binding, Pristine - In like new condition. Never read, even smells new. The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1985 - 6 in. x 9 in. Like new never read, still smells new. Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges to all three sides of page block. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints with satin bookmark. Bound in full black leather with hubbed banded spine, A Limited Edition signed by author. Hubbed, in the context of book binding. Hubs are raised horizontal bands/ribs/ridges on the outside spine (binding edge) of a case bound book. This is another binding process. "Purely for the aesthetics. In the past centuries up until the 1850s, the hub on a book's spine was a thread for (or sometimes a string) that helped to bind and strengthen the book. Original publisher's letter serves as COA. There are only three things to remember when buying books, or about anything else for that matter and those are "condition-condition-condition". You will pay a little more for it but it is worth it. The Franklin Library, a division of The Franklin Mint, was a publisher f fine collector edition books from the early 1970s until 2000. Known for beautiful leather bindings, Franklin Library books were published in full genuine leather. The full leather-bound editions were produced throughout the Library's lifespan. The Franklin Library (Limited, Signed First Editions). All volumes in Limited First Editions series by the Franklin Library were bound in full genuine leather with satin bookmark. Moir end papers. And personally signed by the author. What is a signed first edition? A signed first edition book is one in which the author has hand signed the book, usually on the title page. For it to be first edition, it has to be a book from the first initial print run. SEE PHOTO'S

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