Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1955. First Edition. HB. Quarter red cloth over black cloth boards, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo, 248 pp. Top edge of text block stained red. Author's memoir of his experiences during World War II as a soldier in the 115th Panzer Grenadiers first on the eastern front, and later transferred to Italy, where he was captured by Americans. Sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Illinois, he escaped near the end of the war, ran a bookshop in Chicago until discovered by the FBI in 1953, and returned to Germany. Pabel later opened a successful book selling business in Hamburg that is still operational today. SIGNED by the author top of FFEP. Owner's name, inked out, on FFEP, owner's label bottom of ffep, no other marks in book, binding tight. Covers clean, edges of text block show very light soiling. In an unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket that shows light chipping and edge wear. Book condition VG in VG- DJ.

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Bookseller: Parker's Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: EN5957
Title: Enemies Are Human
Author: Pabel, Reinhhold
Format/Binding: HB
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John C. Winston Company
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date Published: 1955
Bookseller catalogs: World War II;

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VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....