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

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $550

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author

SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS.

printer

Grafja

Place

Warsaw

Publication

1935

Description

FIRST EDITION. Yiddish text. Forward by Aaron Zeitlin. Uncut and unopened.

summary

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.

pp. (4), 6, (2), 5-203, (1 blank), (2). Clean copy. Original limp boards and color printed dust-jacket. Sm. 4to.

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