Meetings with the Angel: Seven Stories from Israel, Tapa dura - 1973

Andre Deutsch, London, 1974. Second Impression. Red Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Editor. silver titles spine; previously owned by the artist Jan Le Witt & signed by one of the editors on the front endpaper with the following inscription: "To Jan Le Witt with friendship from Benjamin Tammuz London June 25th 1974"; jacket design by Jill Henderson; "The seven magnificent stories in 'Meetings with the Angel' by seven Israeli writers (Yitzhak Ben Ner; Yossl Birstein; Amalia Kahana-Carmon; Yaacov Shabtai; David Shahar; Dan Tsalka & A. B. Yehoshua), were all written in the last ten years. The title under which Benjamin Tammuz has collected them was chosen because each of them reflects in some form the Israeli's confrontation with his identity; yet they are so different in style and subject that they must be thought of as 'stories' first and as 'Israeli stories' second. Perhaps the greatest contrast is between 'Early in the Summer of… Leer más

Andre Deutsch, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 252 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore; Israel; ISBN: 0233964851. ISBN/EAN: 9780233964850. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 29325. . 9780233964850