Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED by Isaac Bashevis Singer on a laid in bookplate commemorating the dedication of the Isaac Bashevis Singer Library of Camp Hess Kramer. ; Tight, clean and crisp. A touch of shelf wear to dustjacket, otherwise a gently read First Printing of the First Edition now protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. ; 9.60 X 6.90 X 2.10 inches; 209 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: W. Lamm, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, gilt-stamped illustration on front board; slipcase; 4to; pp. 209. Number 139 from a limited edition of 150 copies, signed by Singer and Moskowitz, and including an original etching. Book - sold as is - a bit water-damaged, with staining at top edge of rear board, and wrinkle along top edge of text block, throughout. Original lithograph, however, is fine -- suitable for display (and priced accordingly). Slipcase a little bumped and scuffed.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; small 4to; black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and picture; hardcover; 209 pages; pictorial endpapers; color and black and white illustrations; signed and inscribed by author; signed by illustrator; lightly edgeworn boards with lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy in a rubbed pictorial dust jacket.
Seller: WellRead Books A.B.A.A., Northport, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$109.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Little Boy in Search of God tells the story of Singer's early life up to his young manhood. This book tells the story of a highly introspective, self-centered, bookish child and young man who from the earliest days of his life becomes absorbed with philosophical and religious questions about the nature of human life and of God and about the pervasive character of suffering and evil. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Ira Moskowitz (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition/Printing. Signed by author with generic greeting (NO names) on half-title page. Black textured cloth boards with gold foil-stamped cover and spine. Near Fine cond. Flaws: minor bumping to spine edges and top corners only. NO other flaws - NO markings throughout - NO rem mark or ex-lib. DJ is Good+ in archival cover and not price-clipped. Signed by Author(s). Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs.
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Printing. Warmly signed, inscribed, and dated by Singer directly to the half-title page. The book and dust jacket are VG/VG+, with some pushing/wear at the spine ends and corners (heavier at the bottom). The jacket is now protected by a Brodart archival cover. The book comes from the esteemed modern first collection of Joy Kritzer. A very nice collectible copy from the Nobel Prize and National Book Award winning author. I ship all of my books bubble-wrapped in sturdy, very well-padded boxes, so they are guaranteed to arrive in the exact same condition as when they left. Please feel free to email with any questions/offers/trades and thank you for supporting small independent booksellers everywhere.
Seller: Dexter's Book Cellar, Stratford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Small quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To Rebecca with love, Isaac B. Singer."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, 209 pages; VG/VG-; in black dust jacket, black spine with white titling; mild rubbing and wear, particularly to head and tail of spine, small closed tears and chipping, including chip missing to head of spine; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$17.95'; Inscribed on the verso of the half-title by Isaac Bashevis Singer, "For Rachel / with love and / admiration / Isaac / April 16 1976" JM consignment; Case 6. Rachel MacKenzie was a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1956 through 1979. Known for nurturing the careers of such literary giants as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Saul Bellow, she also had a correspondence with Muriel Spark and encouraged her to submit to the New Yorker. Charles McGrath, former writer and editor for The New Yorker, writes "MacKenzie was a bluestocking, a former college professor, who had a discerning eye for talent (she more or less discovered Isaac Singer and was a supporter of the young Philip Roth)." Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. 1328427. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited issue. Quarto. Brown cloth gilt. Illustrated by Ira Moskowitz. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 150 numbered copies Signed by both Singer and Moskowitz, on the limitation page. Laid in is a color etching by Moskowitz Signed by him and limited to 150 copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.