Introduction Isaac Bashevis Singer (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Large, square quarto. Color and B&W illustrations. Condition: very small abrasion in center of front panel of DJ; else fine in near fine DJ. 228 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Murray Tinkelman (illustrator). Book Club Edition. Based on the translation of George Fyler Townsend. Introduction by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Illustrated by Murray Tinkelman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Book Club Edition. Red boards stamped in gilt with fox-and-grape vignette to front and gilt spine titles; 214 pp. A handsome mid-century Doubleday edition pairing Townsend's classic 19th-century English translation of Aesop's Fables with an insightful new introduction by Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, who praises the timeless clarity and moral wit of the ancient storyteller. Artist Murray Tinkelman's fine-line pen drawings, stylized yet whimsical, appear throughout, complementing more than 300 fables, including 'The Fox and the Grapes,' 'The Hare and the Tortoise,' and 'The Lion and the Mouse.' The edition revives the unabridged adult text, restoring the moral sharpness and rhythm of Townsend's original rendering. Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket. Clean, bright boards with sharp gilt and sound binding. Jacket shows moderate edgewear with chips at spine crown and a short closed tear and crease to upper front, small loss at lower edge; light toning to flap folds. Interior crisp and unmarked, with mild age toning at margins. Edition details: Copyright İ 1968 by Nelson Doubleday, Inc. Printed in the U.S.A. Jacket design by Jackie Schuman. Book Club Edition issued the same year as the trade first. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish-born American writer who won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature. Writing primarily in Yiddish, he became renowned for blending folklore, moral parable, and human psychology in works such as The Slave and Gimpel the Fool. Murray Tinkelman (1933-2016) was an award-winning American illustrator celebrated for his cross-hatched pen-and-ink style and contributions to classic literature, magazines, and the New York Times Book Review. His finely detailed line art and subtle humor made him one of the defining illustrators of the mid-20th century.

First Thin 4to, cloth. xx+76 pp, more than 100 monochrome illustrations. The subject matter is Hasidic men and women at work, study and debate, and at leisure. Very good in a spine-faded dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. Finck, Liana (illustrator). bilingual edition. 96 pages. 6.00x6.00x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition, Stated (Thus). x, 246p. Jacket corners worn and edges chipped. First English translation published in 1933 under the title: The Sinner. A novel of Hasidic life in the Eastern European area of Galicia. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. (8-5/8"x5-3/4").

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. Finck, Liana (illustrator). bilingual edition. 96 pages. 6.00x6.00x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN . B000QHI94G Hardback; oversize. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Slight wear to board corners and edges; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good condition. Dustjacket with slight wear to corners and edges; minor fade to spine and edges; $12.50 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket; Very Good condition. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Murray Tinkelman (illustrator). 215 pages. 21.5 cm. Blue/Green leatherette with gold embossed design to the front board and gilt design and lettering to the spine. Blue end-papers. Blue page-marker ribbon. Top edge gilt. Light bumping to top/bottom of spine. Else bright, tight and crisp book.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good/Good. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good/Good. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Signed by author (Shulman) (see photo) . 4to., 210pp, Shelf wear; tear at top on front cover; dust cover front dust cover flap top corner clipped; stain on back cover; dust cover spine faded; front cover top edge creased; pages clean and unmarked .

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Fading to jacket color at and near spine. Edge wear to jacket, including a tear to the jacket crown at front panel. Text is clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket (as Issued?). Ilustrated By Murray Tinkelman (illustrator). 215 pages. No dustjacket. Blueish dark textured hardack with intricate gilt-coloured decoration around the edges of the front board which also has an Arabesque-like pattern to front board, gilt-coloured titles and panels to spine repeated design, back board blank which has a couple of small dents. Fore-edge of pages rough-cut and light yellowing to page-edges o/w pages very clean.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. englischsprachige ausgabe. oktav hardcover. sehr gute exemplare. gebundene rote goldgepr. pappbandausgabe mit farbig-illustr. osu. etwas lädiert, ecken etwas bestoßen, titel mit illustration, 215 seiten mit zahlreichen zum teil ganzseitigen illustrationen von murray tinkelman.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 978-84-937948-2-8 Officina de Art y Ediciones S.L., Madrid, 2010. Paperback. First edition, first impression. Illustrated throughout with colour and with black and white photographs. 71 pages. Cardboard slipcase. Covers lightly tanned and lightly foxed. Fore edge of pages lightly tanned. A very good copy in a very good slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. illustrated with 110 paintings, drawings and etchings (illustrator). 1st Edition. Unclipped acetate dust jacket. Solid pictorial boards with sharp corners, black end papers, clean, unmarked pages throughout. Warmly inscribed by Lionel S. Reiss to previous owners on title page. Inscribed by Author(s).

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Introduction and commentary by Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer. Square quarto. 118pp. Heavily illustrated in color. Topedge lightly foxed else fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Soyer, Raphael (illustrator). Limited Edition. No. 631 of 2000, quarto size, 126 pp., signed by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Raphael Soyer. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) was a Polish-born Jewish writer who wrote and published only in Yiddish. He won he Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 and was also awarded two National Book Awards. The artist for this edition, Raphael Soyer, was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker referred to as an American scene painter because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings (N. B. info from Wikipedia). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in Elephant Hide paper with natural finish buckram with silver lettering on the spine, light-grey coloured top edge of text block, watercolour illustrations by Raphael Soyer including twenty-three preliminary sketches; printed on natural-tone wove rage stock paper made specifically for this edition; pagination: (i) - (xii), (1) - 59, blank (60), illustrations (61 - 108), colophon (109); 10.5" tall, signed by author Isaac Bashevis Singer and illustrator Raphael Soyer, Limited Edition no. 631 of 2000; original glassine wrapper present; light-grey paper slipcase. ___CONDITION: Volume is fine, the binding clean and unrubbed, hinges solid, textblock strong, the interior is clean and bright, and it is entirely free of prior owner markings. The glassine wrapper and slipcase are also in fine condition, the glassine wrapper does have some offsetting along spine. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. 4to. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION, one of 2,000 copies. SIGNED by Singer & Soyer to limitation page. Black painted top edge. Slight bumping to fore corners of covers. Housed in lightly rubbed and faintly soiled slipcase. Some scraping to slipcase corners. Tearing with rippling along upper joint ends and lower corners of open end of slipcase. VG in VG slipcase. Author & Illustrator.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED Limited Edition. #403 0F 2000 numbered copies. Signed by Isaac Bashevis Singer & Raphael Soyer on the printed colophon page. Fine in quarter cloth & boards in a close to fine card slipcase. (Light trace of shelfwear to slipcase).