Arnothy, Christine (trans. by Antonia White),
I AM FIFTEEN AND I DO NOT WANT TO DIE.
Collins, London, 1956, 1st edn., 128pp, dichromatic blue/grey cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated dustwrapper by Kenneth Farnhill, the autobiography of a young girl at the Russian siege of German occupied Budapest in early 1945, and of how by living in cellars and only by venturing out when the noise of battle recedes she eventually escapes over the frontier into Austria, edges tanned, dustwrapper: rubbed with loss at spine ends and cnrs., flaking at folds, repaired to reverse, very good in a good dustwrapper,

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