Item #5457 A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw. Isaac Bashevis Singer.
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw

A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. First edition. 21x16cm, 227pp. Black and white photographs by Roman Vishniac. Signed and inscribed by Singer to the former owner on the half title page, and dated. Publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained green, in illustrated jacket. Just a hint of toning at head of spine else fine in near fine jacket with rubbing at corners and spine ends.

Signed, first printing of this group of autobiographical stories detailing Singer's childhood in the Hasidic Jewish community of pre-war Warsaw.  The collection won a National Book Award for Children's Books in 1970. Item #5457

Price: $100.00