The House of Dolls
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955.
First American edition. (Correct first in the English language as well.) [vi], 245, [3] pp.Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with green cloth backstrip lettered in black. Very Good with bumped corners, rubbing along edges, in a rubbed dust jacket with tiny closed tears along bottom edge of front panel, worn at extremities, unclipped ($3.50)
A Holocaust novel by a survivor of Auschwitz featuring the now-infamous "Joy Divisions" (where the British postpunk band got their name), Jewish women who were kept for sexual use by German soldiers during WWII. It was first published in Hebrew in 1953 and became worldwide sensation, due in no small part to its sensationalism and luridness.
Price: $350.00