Yentl The Yeshiva Boy
by Singer, Isaac Bashevis; Antonio Fransconi (woodcuts)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
$35.00$24.50
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About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Good in Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth bound in original dust jacket. Pp 58 [6, with notes]. Stated first edition. Illustrated with woodcuts by Fransconi. The dust jacket is price clipped and has worn edges and corners. It is now in a clear protective cover. There are no other markings; the binding is tight. "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" is a short story by the Polish-born American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. It concerns a young woman who pretends to be a man in order to escape marriage and pursue religious studies. The story was originally published in Yiddish in 1962. Singer's own English translation was first published in 1983. A Broadway stage adaptation premiered in 1975 and a film adaptation, directed by and starring Barbra Streisand, followed eight years later. .
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- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9816
- Title
- Yentl The Yeshiva Boy
- Author
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis; Antonio Fransconi (woodcuts)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Fiction - Adventure - Jewish, Yiddish Fiction, Classic Jewish Fiction, Poland - Jewish - Yiddish - Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; Antiquarian & Collectible Books; Jewish Religion, Culture & Literature;
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Lake Elsinore, California
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- Tight
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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