Mondragon Books

VG hardcover with slipcase. 2000 London Folio Society Edition, with an Introduction by FredericC Raphael and etchings by Jane Joseph. Translated by Stuart Woolf.
Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. If This Is a Man (1947) (U.S.: Survival in Auschwitz), is his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. What has survived in Levi’s writing isn’t just his memory of the unbearable, but also his delight in what made the world exquisite to him.

VG paperback, 2002 publication.  Neil Peart is an international bestselling author, and the lyricist and Hall of Fame drummer for the legendary band Rush. Within a ten-month period, he suffered family losses so devastating that they left him choosing between life and his own death. Deciding on motion, he got on his BMW R1100GS motorcycle, and over the next fourteen months, rode 55,000 miles, in search of a reason to live. Ghost Rider is an intense, exciting and ultimately triumphant narrative memoir from a gifted writer and musician, who started out as a man reduced to trying to stay alive by staying on the move.

A VG set of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy. All are 1st edition, but they are not 1st printing.

Beautiful VG hardback art book with dust jacket, oversized, many color plates throughout printed on glossy paper. Texts by Magdalena Dabrowski and Rudolf Leopold. Published on the occasion of a show of the same title at the Museum of Modern Art October 1997-January 1998. Published by Yale University Press.