Description
Signed limited edition of Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak.
Octavo, xi, [3], 90pp. Oatmeal cream cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine, illustration on front cover. Top edge gilt. Brown endpapers. Stated “copy number 160” of 500 on tipped-in limitation page. Solid text block, appears unread, a touch of foxing to spine, loss of gilt on spine, a near fine example. Wrapped in acetate cover, housed in publisher’s slipcase with double gilt-ruled border on panels. Signed on limitation page by author and illustrator.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature for his achievements as a writer. Singer was born in Poland and first published his work in Yiddish, but later translated it into English. He wrote children’s stories as well as fiction novels, primarily centered around his experience as a Jewish Polish-American growing up and living in wartime Europe and America. Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), creator of Where the Wild Things Are, was an American author and illustrator of countless children’s books and movies.
