About this title: Book jacket/back: In this beloved novel of immigrant life in Brooklyn, David Fuchs speaks to us in a distinctive, affecting voice. He evokes the special, marvelous qualities of the Jewish-American experience by creating characters and conflicts whose idiom and flavor he catches with uncanny precision. This is an exceptional novel about ordinary people. Each of the central characters lives in the same tenemant building in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. This single building is a miniature of the teeming, dynamic community of which it is a part. It is inhabited by solitary souls and ...
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: A Berkley Medallion Book, New York
Date Published: 1965
Description: Fair. No Jacket. This book has some shelf wear as well as tanning and marks on the cover and pages. There is creasing on the spine. This book is 303 pages. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Carroll & Graf, New York
Date Published: 1983 (c.1934)
ISBN-13:9780881840063ISBN:0881840068
Description: Illustrated by (cover art) Harold Seroy. Very Good. 0-88184-006-8. [solid copy, minor soiling/browning to page edges, small tear at bottom corner of last page (no loss of text)]. Trade PB The author's first novel, originally published in 1934, and the first of what used to be called his "Williamsburg Trilogy, " but in recent times have been dubbed "the Brooklyn Novels. " Cover blurb of this edition calls it a "beloved novel of immigrant life in Brooklyn, " and lauds the author for evoking "the ... read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Vanguard Press, New York
Date Published: (1934)
Description: First edition. Faint spotting on the spine, else near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with some chipping at the corners of the spine, and several old internal repairs. A handsome copy of the author's first book, an extremely scarce novel set in Williamsburg, the Jewish section of Brooklyn. The first book in a trilogy, and destined for greater recognition. Hanna. Mirror for the Nation #1331. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Medallion
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good. 303 pages, 1st printing, S1066 April 1965. Very clean, tight and free of wear. Faint sticker mark on front. Text is lightly yellowed. No fading or rubbing to covers. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley, New York, NY
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good. Vintage paperback editions of all three of Fuchs' Williamsburg novels. Some edge-tanning to pages and moderate age-wear. a few creases to covers and dog-ears to pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Constable, London
Date Published: 1935
Description: First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp [vi], 407. The author's first novel, being about Jewish life in Brooklyn. Inevitably attracts comparison with Henry Roth. Edges spotted. Very good in chipped and defective dustwrapper. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Constable, London
Date Published: 1935
Description: First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp [vi], 407. The author's first novel, being about Jewish life in Brooklyn. Inevitably attracts comparison with Henry Roth. Scarce. Some light bumping to edges of covers. Very good in very good indeed, faintly spotted dustwrapper with a brilliant design by Malcolm Easton. read more
Binding: paperback
Publisher: BERKLEY PUBLISHING CO
Date Published: 1965
Description: Good. Some wear on book from reading, spine creases, may have some markings on the inside. 100% money-back guaratee. Good means general reading wear. read more
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