THE NAG
by Seforim, Mendele Mocher
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good/poor
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Beechhurst Press, (c. 1955). Hardcover. Very good/poor. Werth, Kurt. Translated from the Yiddish by Moshe Spiegel. Illustrated by Kurt Werth. Octavo, green cloth covers, 223 pages. Covers slightly sunned at edges. Dust jacket split at folds, chipped, tears, poor. 121901A "First published in Vilna in the year 1873, The Nag is one of the best examples of the work of the celebrated Yiddish writer who won fame under the pen-name of Mendele the Book Peddler. One hundred years ago, Mendele was well known to the Jews of Russia and Poland as a man who traveled from town to town in a horse-drawn cart, selling books, listening to everyone's troubles, and writing stories about them. These Jews knew Mendele well--so well that they also knew there was no such person. Mendele the Book Peddlar was the fictional creation of Sholem Jacob Abramovitch.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000015345
- Title
- THE NAG
- Author
- Seforim, Mendele Mocher
- Illustrator
- Werth, Kurt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Beechhurst Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c. 1955)
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Deerfield, Illinois
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Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Sunned
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...