Singer, Isaac Bashevis. One Day of Happiness (SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR). Red Ozier Press, New York, 1982.

Price: US$625.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Unpaginated, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Singer's signature to last story page in pen. Interior color lithographic frontispiece signed in pencil by Callner. Illustrated with three colored lithographs, each signed by Richard Callner in pencil. Violet morocco leather spine, sides, and corner-tips. Blue boards. Translated from the original Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Pollet. Light age toning to top text block edge. Heavy fading to spine. Rough-cut fore edge. Of 155 copies, this is number 76. Scarce. A clean and tight copy. Record # 952229

Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1904-91) & Richard Callner (Artist & illustrator; 1927- ).. One Day of Happiness. Lithographs by Richard Callner.. Red Ozier Press, New York. Number 132 of 155 copies; singned by Isaac B. Singer, at the end of the story., 1982.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 6 3/4 in. x 10 3/4 in., half-title; design title-page printed in gray and black, color lithographic frontispiece illustration of an interior, signed in pencil by Callner, with a glassine paper guard on both sides of the plate; text printed in gray and black; unpaginated, with numbered colophon leaf; illustrated with three, colored lithographs, each signed by Richard Callner in pencil. Violet morocco leather spine and sides, and corner-tips, with blue & gray paste-paper over boards. In the publisher's, gray cloth-covered slipcase. The violet leather spine shows light fading of the leather color, very light fading to slipcase fore-edge. This copy comes with the original printed prospectus, which is printed as a small broadside (6 1/2 in. x 10 5/8 in.), and which is not folded. [Colophon]: This story was translated from the original Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Pollet. The book was created by the hands of Kate Leavitt who printed the lithographs; Pat Taylor of Out of Sorts Letter Foundery who cast the Goudy Village type; the Twinrocker Paper Mill which formed the special edition of paper; Emily Brown Shields who calligraphed the watermarks and title page; and William Anthony who produced the pastepapers and binding. The book was printed by Steve Miller and Ken Botnick at Red Ozier's 25th Street printshop; the last page pulled on April first. Of 155 copies this is number 132.

Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.