Zlateh the goat, and other stories / by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Pictures by Maurice Sendak ; translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991.

Contributor:

Sendak, Maurice.

Shub, Elizabeth.

Tehon, Atha.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Juvenile fiction.

Jews.

Families--Juvenile fiction.

Families.

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (inscription) (Tehon Collection copy)

Thiras, Stephen (inscription) (Tehon Collection copy)

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1999 (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy)

Sendak, Maurice (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xi pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 90 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

[Limited edition].

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Harper & Row, Publishers, [1966]

Summary:

Seven stories based on middle European Jewish folklore and legends.

Contents:

Foreword

Fool's paradise

Grandmother's tale

The snow in Chelm

The mixed-up feet and the silly bridegroom

The first Shlemiel

The Devil's trick

Zlateh the goat.

Notes:

"From the first edition ... this limited edition of five hundred copies was printed on Andora paper, specially bound and numbered and signed by the author and artist."

White textured cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine with black and white pictorial paper label affixed to front cover. Top edge gilt stained.

Contains 17 tipped in black and white mounted plates included in pagination.

Housed in slipcase.

Designed by Atha Tehon.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy is no. 379 signed by Isaac B. Singer and Maurice Sendak, with a personal written message "For Atha & Steve" signed by "Maurice Dec'66".

OCLC:

17616613