Author: FAST, HOWARD
Title: The Romance of a People the History of the Jews
Description: New York, NY: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1941. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Fair dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's paper address label on the front pastedown page. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and small chips. The front flap has completely detached from the dust jacket. "Fast was born in New York City. His mother, Ida (née Miller) , was a British Jewish immigrant, and his father, Barney Fast, was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant who shortened his name from Fastovsky upon arrival in America. When his mother died in 1923 and his father became unemployed, Howard's youngest brother, Julius, went to live with relatives, while he and his older brother, Jerome, sold newspapers. Howard credited his early voracious reading to a part-time job in the New York Public Library. Fast began writing at an early age. While hitchhiking and riding railroads around the country to find odd jobs, he wrote his first novel, Two Valleys, published in 1933 when he was 18. His first popular work was Citizen Tom Paine, a fictional account of the life of Thomas Paine. Always interested in American history, Fast also wrote The Last Frontier (about the Cheyenne Indians' attempt to return to their native land, and which inspired the 1964 movie Cheyenne Autumn) and Freedom Road (about the lives of former slaves during Reconstruction). " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .
Keywords: Religion Howard Fast Jewish History
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Title: The Romance of a People the History of the Jews
Description: New York, NY: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1941. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Fair dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's paper address label on the front pastedown page. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and small chips. The front flap has completely detached from the dust jacket. "Fast was born in New York City. His mother, Ida (née Miller) , was a British Jewish immigrant, and his father, Barney Fast, was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant who shortened his name from Fastovsky upon arrival in America. When his mother died in 1923 and his father became unemployed, Howard's youngest brother, Julius, went to live with relatives, while he and his older brother, Jerome, sold newspapers. Howard credited his early voracious reading to a part-time job in the New York Public Library. Fast began writing at an early age. While hitchhiking and riding railroads around the country to find odd jobs, he wrote his first novel, Two Valleys, published in 1933 when he was 18. His first popular work was Citizen Tom Paine, a fictional account of the life of Thomas Paine. Always interested in American history, Fast also wrote The Last Frontier (about the Cheyenne Indians' attempt to return to their native land, and which inspired the 1964 movie Cheyenne Autumn) and Freedom Road (about the lives of former slaves during Reconstruction). " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .
Keywords: Religion Howard Fast Jewish History
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 44387
- Book number: 44387
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