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Grandpa Isidore / by Amos Oz ; translated from the Hebrew into English by Nicholas de Lange.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio Z239.L34 O9 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oz, Amos, 1939-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Hebrew--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Hebrew.
- Jews--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Small press books.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Oz, Amos (autograph)
- Avadenka, Lynne (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 22 unnumbered pages, 2 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 32 cm
- Other Title:
- Sv' 'Yzydr
- Place of Publication:
- Huntington Woods, Mich. : Land Marks Press, 1997.
- Notes:
- "Grandpa Isidore was composed on a Macintosh computer in Garamond and David types. The text was then transferred to photopolymer plates which were printed letterpress on Frankfurt white. The cover wrapper is Twinrocker Sagebrush. The etching accompanying the text is by Lynne Avadenka. All design, printing and binding activies took place at Land marks Press, Huntington Woods, Michigan. Grandpa Isidore was begun in Summer 1996 and finished in Spring 1997..."--Colophon.
- Text in English and Hebrew.
- The etching in on double folded paper.
- One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Rare Book copy: No. 5.
- OCLC:
- 38187039
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