The World of Sholom Aleichem
by Samuel, Maurice
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/Good
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1943. This is a Very Good Minus copy of the "B'nai Brith Hillel Foundations Edition" (issued two months after the First Edition). Gray cloth binding with blindstamped decoration, filled with red. There is a small stain on the upper edge of the front board. Clean text; 331 pages (for a wartime edition, the paper is surprisingly good). An Uncommon title, this copy notable as it is SIGNED by Maurice Samuel on the FFEP. In addition, it has been SIGNED, INSCRIBED and dated June 1943 by Abram Leon Sacher, noted historian and president of Brandeis University. Two of the great figures of XXth Century Jewish arts and letters are present on the same page. The red, white and blue dustjacket is unclipped, but has several large chips and the spine is browned. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Later Printing.. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000458
- Title
- The World of Sholom Aleichem
- Author
- Samuel, Maurice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Later Printing.
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Bookseller catalogs
- Judaica;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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