My Name is Asher Lev
by Potok, Chaim
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black cloth over boards in unclipped dust jacket showing original $7.95 price on flap. Blue top edge stain. Stated first edition. Covers sunned at top edges, interior age toned, stains along fore edge of end papers, shelf soil to bottom text edge, mild spine lean; dust jacket has edge nicks and wear and short closed tears to upper spine.
Synopsis
My Name Is Asher Lev is a novel by Chaim Potok about a "Ladover" (a fictional movement based on Chabad-Lubavitch) Hasidic Jewish boy from Brooklyn, Asher Lev, who is a loner with artistic inclinations. Lev fights with his family and the people of his Hasidic sect for the right and freedom to use his gift, against the tendency of his people to view being an artist as a waste of time. His father is a very important member of the sect.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blum and Rosen Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026511
- Title
- My Name is Asher Lev
- Author
- Potok, Chaim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 369
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; Judaica;
Terms of Sale
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