SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS. Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories. Peter Owen, London, 1958.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Turquoise cloth. 205 pp. Translated by Isaac Rosenfield. Faint red mark along edge of front free endpaper; spine very slightly sunned; tiny ink spot on front cover; otherwise a very good tight copy. Size: 8 x 5 Inches
Seller: Ripping Yarns, London, United Kingdom
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER. Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories.. Peter Owen Ltd., London [1958]., 1958.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 205pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A touch of very light partial browning to the endpapers, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some fading to the spine panel, a touch of further very light fading to the head of the front and rear panels, a little minor chafing to the spine ends and a sliver of moisture marking. Twelve short stories, the Nobel laureate's first collection of English-language short fiction (the title story here is translated from the Yiddish by Saul Bellow, and one other translated by Isaac Rosenfeld).
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (20.5cm.); original simulated cloth in orange pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [8],205pp. Jacket spine faded, minor glue residue from previously removed price sticker on upper jacket flap, else Very Good or better.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.