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New York Jew / by Alfred Kazin.
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS29.K38 A36
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.
- Critics--United States--Biography.
- Critics.
- United States.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages307, 3 unnumbered pages. ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House, Inc.], 1978.
- Contents:
- Words
- Midtown and the Village
- You must change your life
- Journey in wartime
- England: the last battle
- Never had it so good
- The times being what they are
- The new life
- Growing up in the sixties
- Words.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
- "First Edition."
- "This book was set on the Linotype in Janson, a recutting made direct from type cast from matrices long thought to have been made from the Dutchman Anton Janson, who was a practicing type founder in Leipzig during the years 1668-87. However, it has been conclusively demonstrated that these types are actually the work of Nicholas Kis (1650-1702), a Hungarian, who most probably learned his trade from the master Dutch type founder Dirk Voskens."--A Note on the Type.
- "Design by Margaret M. Wagner."
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1978".
- Potok Collection copy has marginal marks
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: Emma S. Beerman.
- ISBN:
- 0394495675 :
- OCLC:
- 3542698
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