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Elijah the Slave
Farrar Straus & Giroux. hardcover. Brand new gift quality hardcover in jacket First edition, first printing oversized and overweight. A62 Please email for photos.. Collectible: Like New .
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Elijah the Slave a Hebrew Legend Retold
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- dust jacket. Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some beginning edge wear, nicking and rubbing along with some beginning toning and wear to the front flap edge. "In Elijah the Slave, the winner of the 1970 National Book Award for children's literature retells a Hebrew legend with vivid simplicity and an internationally respected artist interprets it with a sincerity and fresh vision reminiscent of medieval art. Elijah, a messenger from God, sells himself as a slave to help Tobias, a poor, faithful scribe." Singer won the National Book Award for 1970 for A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw. "Singer believed in the power of his native language and thought that there was still a large audience, including in New York, who longed to read in Yiddish. In an interview in Encounter (February 1979) , he claimed that although the Jews of Poland had died, "somethingcall it spirit or whateveris still somewhere in the universe. This is a mystical kind of feeling, but I feel there is truth in it." Some of his colleagues and readers were shocked by his all-encompassing view of human nature. He wrote about female homosexuality ("Zeitl and Rickel", "Tseytl un Rikl") , published in The Seance and Other Stories) , transvestism ("Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" in Short Friday) , and of rabbis corrupted by demons ("Zeidlus the Pope" in Short Friday). In those novels and stories which refer to events in his own life, he portrays himself unflatteringly (with some degree of accuracy) as an artist who is self-centered yet has a keen eye for the sufferings and tribulations of others.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 33322
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Catalogue: Young Adult
Keywords: Picture Book Isaac Bashevis Singer antonio Frasconi Elijah The Old Testament Bible Stories Yiddish Folk Tales Hebrew legends Picture Books
Elijah the Slave. A Hebrew Legend Retold by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Translated from the Yiddish by the Author and Elizabeth Shub
New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1970. 8vo. 31pp.Soft Covers, Very Good+, with minor shelf wear. Illustrations by Antonio Frasconi. .
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Elijah the Slave. A Hebrew Legend Retold by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Translated from the Yiddish by the Author and Elizabeth Shub
New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1970. 8vo. 31 pp. Soft Covers, Very Good, with minor shelf wear. Illustrations by Antonio Frasconi. First Paper Edition. .
Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 15-4788
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Elijah the Slave
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1970. 4to. Pages unnumbered. Illustrated. Very good + in purple cloth with very good + dust jacket. One small tear to dust jacket front cover near upper corner, and slight fraying. Several small spots of soiling on first four pages. Extensive, first-rate color illustrations by Antonio Frasconi. First edition. .
Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 66-0450
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Elijah the Slave a Hebrew Legend Retold
New York, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Color Illustrations; Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a previous owner's address label adhered to the front pastedown page underneath the dust jacket flap. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some light edge wear and nicking / very small chips to the spine ends and a couple of small spots of color rubbed off on the rear cover of the dust jacket. There are a couple of very small semi-closed edge tears to the dust jacket as well. This is a Stated First Edition. "Singer's first published story won the literary competition of the literarishe bletter and garnered him a reputation as a promising talent. A reflection of his formative years in "the kitchen of literature" can be found in many of his later works. IB Singer published his first novel, Satan in Goray, in installments in the literary magazine Globus, which he had co-founded with his life-long friend, the Yiddish poet Aaron Zeitlin in 1935. The book recounts events of 1648 in the village of Goraj (close to Bilgoraj) , where the Jews of Poland lost a third of their population in a wholesale attack by Cossacks. It explores the effects of the seventeenth-century faraway false messiah, Shabbatai Zvi, on the local population. Its last chapter imitates the style of a medieval Yiddish chronicle. With a stark depiction of innocence crushed by circumstance, the novel appears to foreshadow coming danger. In his later work, The Slave (1962) , Singer returns to the aftermath of 1648, in a love story between a Jewish man and a Gentile woman." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 47455
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Catalogue: Young Adult
Keywords: Young Adult Isaac Bashevis Singer antonio Frasconi Elijah The Old Testament Bible Stories Yiddish Folk Tales Hebrew legends
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