Thursday, June 14, 2007

Born on this Day: Jerzy (Nikodem) Kosinski

Jerzy (Nikodem) Kosinski
Writer, born in Lodz, Poland, USA. He had a horrific childhood hiding from the Nazis during World War 2, and a tenuous existence under the Stalinists in Poland. He studied at the University of Lodz (1950 BA; MAs 1953, 1955) and did postgraduate work in sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences (1955–7). Emigrating... biography.com/search/article.do?id=9368591

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1. (Jerzy Kosinski) TEICHOLZ, Tom (editor).
Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski.

Jackson University Press of Mississippi 1993 0878056262 Paperback
First paperback edition. Fine in pictorial wraps. ISBN: 0878056262.
Price: 10.00 USD
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2. KOSINSKI, Jerzy.
Devil Tree.

NY Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973 0151253285 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
First printing. Small red ink stain at the upper corner of the front board and on the fore edge, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket that also has red ink stains on verso and front flap; also a bit of soiling on front panel.
Price: 20.00 USD
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3. KOSINSKI, Jerzy.
Devil Tree: Revised and Expanded Edition.

NY St. Martin's 1981 0312197942 Hardcover
First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0312197942.
Price: 30.00 USD
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4. KOSINSKI, Jerzy.
Hermit of 69th Street: The Working Papers of Norbert Kosky.

NY Holt 1988 0805006117 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: 15.00 USD
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5. KOSINSKI, Jerzy.
Painted Bird.

Boston Houghton Mifflin 1965 Hardcover
Second printing. Near fine in a very good (light foxing), price clipped dust jacket.
Price: 100.00 USD
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6. KOSINSKI, Jerzy.
Pinball.

NY Bantam 1982 0553050079 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
First printing. Fine in a very near fine (small tear at upper right corner of the front panel) dust jacket.
Price: 30.00 USD
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