Short Friday and Other Short Stories.

SINGER, Isaac Bashevis.

Item Number: 103449

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964.

First edition of this collection of stories by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Marcia Allentuck a scholar and a most charming lady with friendship and my best wishes Isaac B. Singer.” The recipient Marcia Allentuck is a historian and author of The Achievment of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. A very nice association.

Chosen by Isaac Bashevis Singer, these sixteen short stories offer a Lucullian feast of passion and laughter, witchery, chicanery, village politics, vengeance, suffering and faith. In his superb and richly evoked characters, his effortless rendering of place and his fresh, spontaneous prose, he once again demonstrates he is master.