Books with author Isaac Bashevis Singer

As New; immaculate; see scans and description. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1980. Signed, Limited Edition. Signed by Isaac Bashevis Singer on the third free end paper. First Edition Thus. Includes the rather scarce 22-page "Notes from the Editors", which accompanied this edition in its original shipment, also pristine. Octavo, 223 pp., six mood-capturing full-page woodcut illustrations by Phero Thomas. Full rich very deep mottled green-black leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, green moire endpapers, with matching satin page-marker ribbon. As New, and quite flawless. Franklin's as-always lavish binding, in a limited signed edition of Isaac Bashevis Singer's timeless 1953 collection of short stories, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories (English Translation by Saul Bellow). The paper is 60-pound Franklin Library Eggshell Wove Cream, typeface is 11-point Baskerville. Gilt is 22 karat. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; bright, tight and a visual treat. With the author's 'A Special Message to Subscribers from Isaac Bashevis Singer', written in 1980 in New York for this limited edition, and telling a rather remarkable 2-page story of how this collection eventually came to publication; and, of course, the separate 'Notes from the Editors' (itself also As New), a very desirable - and pristine - example. See all scans. LFR5

"A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer’s masterpiece” (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees in New York City in the late 1940s. At its center is Boris Makaver, a pious, wealthy businessman whose greatest trial is his unstable daughter, Anna. A chain of events disrupts the lives of the close-knit community as each refugee struggles to reconcile the horrific past with the difficult present, as Singer explores both the nature of faith and the nature of love in the aftermath of the Holocaust.