A Life

First edition, first impression.  294pp, with some monochrome illustrations in text.  Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine.  8vo.  Cloth just a tad pushed at corners and spine ends; hint of smudge mark on fore edge, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original dust wrapper, not price clipped, which remains crisp and bright.  Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.

Part memoir, part biography and part autobiography, this is an exploration of the tole of memory and story-telling in people’s lives and minds.  And at the same time it is the story of the life of a remarkable women born into the comfortable world of pre- First World War Egyptian Jewry who, with her young son, survived the second world war in France and who ended her days in the peace of the English countryside.  Gabriel Jasipovici’s most personal and moving book.