About this title: The Ghetto Tragedies collected in a little volume in 1893 have been so submerged in the present collection that Zangwill relegated the original name in the subtitle. Anyone who wishes to measure the progress or decay of the author's imagination has these materials at hand. "Noah's Ark" stands on the firmer Ararat of history, Zangwill's invention ...
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Description: Acceptable. May contain some marks or highlighting. No Dust Jacket Minimal Writing inside on front end page. Inside fairly clean. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, New York
Date Published: 1899
Description: By I. Zangwill. First Edition of this collection of stories. Hardcover, good used condition: spine has many dark spots & worn crown but fairly bright lettering; owner name in pencil dated 1899; top edge gilt. --English author. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Heinemann, London
Date Published: 1899
Description: Reading Copy. No Jacket. 8vo. A good reading copy only as red cloth covers are soiled with small split to cloth at head of spine. Hinges reinforced with linen binder's tape. Slightly cocked. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. 333 pages + adverts. Text block generally clean. Jewish short stories. read more
Description: Good; Collectible. FIRST EDITION. 1899 Jewish Publication Society of America Hardback, issued without dust jacket. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and spine, top edge gilt, gravure frontispiece after Louis Loeb. Slight edgewear to spine, light toning to text else very good overall condition. No underlining, etc., NOT EX-LIBRARY. (B) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: The Macmillan Company. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,
Date Published: 1899
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-viii [ix-x] 1-486 [487-488: ads] [489-494: blank] [note: last two leaves used as rear free endpaper and paste-down; title leaf is a cancel], inserted frontispiece with photogravure illustration after a picture by Louis Loeb, original gray cloth, front panel stamped in gold and red with rules in blind, spine panel stamped in red and gold, t.e.g., fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition, Macmillan issue. This collection of short fiction, ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: William Heinemann,
Date Published: 1899
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-333 [334-336: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original decorated orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel. First British edition. This collection of short fiction, containing some of Zangwill's best stories, includes the contents of GHETTO TRAGEDIES (1893) plus seven new stories of Jewish life. While several of the stories include folkloristic material, none are supernatural tales. Bleiler (1978), p ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America,
Date Published: 1899
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-viii [ix-x] 1-486 [487-490: ads] [note: title leaf is a cancel], inserted frontispiece with photogravure illustration after a picture by Louis Loeb, original decorated maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges trimmed. First edition, Jewish Publication Society issue. This collection of short fiction, containing some of Zangwill's best stories, includes the contents of GHETTO TRAGEDIES (1893) plus seven new stories of Jewish life. ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia
Date Published: 1899
Description: Fair. No dust jacket. 486 p.; Contents: "They that walk in darkness. "--Transitional. --Noah's ark. --The land of promise. --To die in Jerusalem. --Bethulah. --The keeper of conscience. --Satan mekatrig. --Diary of a meshumad. --Incurable. --The Sabbath breaker. Yellow textured cloth binding darkened on the spine and smudged elsewhere. Hinges have been reinforced with tape. Pages are unmarked. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan Company, New York
Date Published: 1899
Description: Good/No Jacket. / Text clean and well bound, with fairly moderate general shelfwear, some rubbing to spine titles, a few droplet spot discoloration to frontal title box; mild aging to cloth and paper. read more
Edition: First
Publisher: Jewish Pub Society of Amer, PA
Date Published: 1899
Description: First edition. Very good Book has minor chipping at spine ends. Book cover is shelf rubbed. Former owner's name on title page. Glue mark on back endpaper. read more
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