Botchki: When Doomsday Was Still Tomorrow
by Zagier, David
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: George Braziller Incorporated, 2001. BZ3 - A first edition advance reading copy (ARC)/uncorrected proof book in very good condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). A tight, clean, sound copy in light green wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is some very light creasing on the front cover near the edge at the top left corner plus a very, very slight bump at the bottom right corner. A memoir of the author's childhood and youth in a Polish shetl which ended when he fled from the Polish authorities in 1927. It is a memoir, humorous at times, of grinding poverty and misfortune and evoking sites, characters and mood typical of great Yiddish literature. 238p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 5.5"x8.5". Advance Reading Copy (ARC).
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW05712
- Title
- Botchki: When Doomsday Was Still Tomorrow
- Author
- Zagier, David
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Publisher
- George Braziller Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Nonfiction Non-fiction Memoir Autobiography Yiddish Literature Yiddish Writing History Poland Polish Shetl Eastern Europe Jew Jews Jewish Culture Jewish History Holocaust Crimes Against Humanity Genocide Advance Reading Copy ARC Uncorrected Proof
- Bookseller catalogs
- Jewish Studies; Biography / Memoirs; Biography / Autobiography: S-Z; Jewish Studies / Jewish Life;
- Size
- 5.5"x8.5"
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