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The Book of Lights / Chaim Potok.
LIBRA Rare PS3566.O69 B5 1982 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Potok, Chaim.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mysticism--Judaism--Fiction.
- Mysticism.
- Jewish students--Fiction.
- Jewish students.
- Orphans--Fiction.
- Orphans.
- Mysticism--Judaism.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 369 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- Saddle Brook, New Jersey : Printed and bound by American Book-Stratford Press.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Heinemann, [1982]
- Notes:
- "First published in Great Britain in 1982."
- "Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America for permission to reprint from Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition by Gershom G. Scholem (1965 edition)."
- "This book was set on the Linotype in Granjon, a type named in compliment to Robert Granjon, but neither a copy of a classic face nor an entirely original creation. George W. Jones based his design on the type used by Claude Garamond (1510-61) in his beautiful French books."--A Note on the Type.
- "Typography and binding design by Dorothy Schmiderer."
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 434596043 :
- OCLC:
- 16610265
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