Together with the Booker Prize Bookmark.

KENEALLY, Thomas ~ Schindler’s Ark. Signed by the author.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1982

8vo., black boards lettered in gilt to spine with publisher's device to foot; in the dustwrapper designed by Steve and Julie Ridgeway (repriced £7.95 to front flap); THE BOOK near-fine, just a touch bruised at extremities and with one or two faint spots to the outer edges and prelims; the very good DUSTWRAPPER with some light vertical creasing to the front panel, one or two small nicks at edges, ever-so-slightly faded to the backstrip and toned to flaps. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First UK edition, first printing. This copy boldly signed by the author to the title page, and complete both with the Hay Festival event ticket (where the book was presumably signed), and the Man Booker Prize Bookmark. The Booker prize-winner, and the novel behind the famous Steven Spielberg film, both of which tell the fictionalised story of a real man, Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of over 1200 jews during the holocaust. Schindler was a member of the Nazi party, who acquired an enamelware factory in Poland at the outbreak of the war. At its peak, he employed approximately 1,750 workers, of whom 1,000 were Jews, and using his connections he was able to keep almost all of those workers from deportations to concentration camps, sometimes through a combination of large bribes and luxury gifts to Nazi party members only obtainable on the black market. By the end of the war, almost his entire fortune had been gifted or given away. When he died in Germany in 1974 he was buried on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, making him likely the only former member of the Nazi Party to be honoured thus. The Australian novelist Thomas Keneally began writing the novel after meeting the Holocaust survivor Poldek Pfefferberg, who was one of the Jews saved through Schindler's actions. Working closely together, the pair traveled to Kraków and other sites in Poland associated with the story. The book is here dedicated to Pfefferberg: "who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written." In 2009, a carbon copy of the original list was found in a library in Sydney. Unusual with these attributes.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Very Good