Der Soton in Goray [“Satan in Goray”].

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00

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Lot 311

SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS.

Der Soton in Goray [“Satan in Goray”].

<<FIRST EDITION. >> Yiddish text. Forward by Aaron Zeitlin. Uncut and unopened. pp. (4), 6, (2), 5-203, (1 blank), (2). Clean copy. Original limp boards and color printed dust-jacket. Sm. 4to.

Warsaw: Grafja 1935

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $550

First edition of the Nobel-prize winner’s first novel, here in the original Yiddish. Contains motifs that are signature Singer: Antinomianism, sexual debauchery, mysticism and the breakdown of rabbinic authority.