The Feet of the Messenger
by Yehoash (Solomon Bloomgarden)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1923. Yehoash was the pseudonym of Solomon Bloomgarden (1872-1927), Yiddish poet and translator; here he describes a trip to Palestine in 1914. An uncommon title. Illustrated paper-covered boards, with drawings of Jerusalem in blue, yellow, and gray. Clean text; 296 pages. Rubbed at the margins, with a darkened spine. Front gutter has cracked, but holding well. In an archival plastic protector. . First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004130
- Title
- The Feet of the Messenger
- Author
- Yehoash (Solomon Bloomgarden)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Jewish Publication Society of America
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1923
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Judaica;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....