THE TOPSY-TURVY EMPEROR OF CHINA; Isaac Bashevis Singer / Pictures by Julian Jusim / Translated from the Yiddish by Elizabeth Shub

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. First American Edition Thus Illustrated. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Julian Jusim. Tall, slender 8vo, light red boards with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a Chinese emperor with left arm and finger pointing toward heaven; illustrated by Julian Jusim, [32] pages simuilating parchment. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902 - 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He was also awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970). Julian Jusim is a Russian-born illustrator now living and working in Germany. The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China was first published in America by Harper & Row in 1971. The Julian Jusim first illustrated edition was published in Germany in 1993 as Der Kaiser von China. "A dark tale of the eternal "struggle between good and evil, beauty and ugliness," from a master, given pristine treatment in the illustrations."--Kirkus Reviews EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! Wonderful illustrations!