A Star in the Wind
by Robert Nathan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Item Description: knopf-Borzoi Books, New York, New York, 1962. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine book with very readable faded spine in repaired VG Jacket with small chips at extremities. $4.50 price not clipped. A novel of modern Rome, of the refugee ships, and the hill fortresses of israel.In this novel with its wide canvas, its swift and dramatic action, Robert Nathan tells the story of a troubled young newspaperman's quest for love and courage. It is a story of packed refugee ships fleeing the horror of post war Europe, to the shores of embattled israel. It is a love story between Joseph, a wide eyed young man, used to the joy of Rome and the beautiful widow of a murdered Jew on the refugee ship Teti. In Robert Nathan's life affirming story, Joseph begins to understand what it means to be a Jew. A fine collectible of one of the authors later novels.
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- Bookseller
- Oshtemo Book Sellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000101
- Title
- A Star in the Wind
- Author
- Robert Nathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition/first printing
- Publisher
- knopf-Borzoi Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- Very Fine first edition/first printing
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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- Spine
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- VG
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- Fine
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