Isaac Bashevis Singer: the Magician of West 86th Street: A Biography

New York: Dial Press, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Stated First Printing. Hard cover in very good condition with gray linen-like boards and blue gilt spine lettering. Bright blue end papers. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Contains section of black & white photographs. On bottom text block, near the spine, is stamped a black star. Dust jacket in good condition with shelf & edge wear, chips & rubbing at head & heel of spine and corners of folds; closed 3/4"" tear to top of back panel; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""In 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Nobel Prize for literature. The seventy-five years of his life are as fabulous, colorful - and elusive - as any of the stories told by this contemporary master of fiction. Paul Kresh, a longtime friend of Singer's, illuminates the man and his work. Through diligent research and countless interviews - with Singer himself, members of his family, friends, acquaintances, and colleagues - he recreates Singer's boyhood in the Jewish ghettoes of Poland, his struggles as a Yiddish writer, his emigration to America, and ultimate success as a world-renowned author of novels, short stories, memoirs, and children's books. . . . The portrait that emerges is of a unique genius, a folk hero - preserver of a lost world.. . .""