Description

Large format hardcover, folio bound in reddish cloth lettered in gold, in publisher’s original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 38 pages. Illustrated with sepia drawings by Symeon Shimin. Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. Stated first edition. Winner of the 1970 National Book Award for children’s literature which tells the story of the message of monotheism delivered to a pagan Poland by a wandering Jew. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.