Once Upon a Droshky
by Charyn, Jerome
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Newy York; (1964): McGraw-Hill Book Co. First Edition. Octavo. Author's first book. Inscribed to a close friend who helped him when he was ill. 222(1) pp. The story of Yankel Rubinowitz, a retired Yiddish actor, who is evicted with his friends by Farbstein the landlord and Yankel's son, Irving the lawyer from his ancient tenement on the lower East Side. Yankel, is one of the most memorable and fully imagined fictional characters. It is also the story of Pincus the poet and hist twenty-five year feud with Yankel, of Tillie Moskowitz, of Mendel the merchant and Morris the musician, of Schimmel and Schmulka, and others. This work is at the center of a long tradition of European Jewish and American-Jewish storytelling. It is one of those rare creations, both serious fiction and delightful entertainment. Bound in 1/4 brown paper over orange paper covered boards, spine lettering orange, wear to spine ends and corners, in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket with soiling and spine darkened, wear to corners and spine ends. A very good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023164
- Title
- Once Upon a Droshky
- Author
- Charyn, Jerome
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Co
- Place of Publication
- Newy York; (1964)
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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