Tales of A Tailor. Humor and Tragedy in the Struggles of the Early Immigrants Against the Sweatshop
by [NEEDLE TRADES] LIPTZIN, Sam
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- first
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Friends Publishers, 1965. First edition. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth boards; dustjacket; 272pp. Illustrated by William Gropper; translated from the Yiddish by Max Rosenfeld. Hinges age-darkened, else a fine, straight copy in very lightly worn dustjacket with a few tiny closed nicks to extremities and some dusting to rear panel. Uncommon collection of semi-autobiographical short stories by the prolific Yiddish-language author. The Gropper illustrations appear to be taken from earlier sources.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10240
- Title
- Tales of A Tailor. Humor and Tragedy in the Struggles of the Early Immigrants Against the Sweatshop
- Author
- [NEEDLE TRADES] LIPTZIN, Sam
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Friends Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- needle trades new york jewish yiddish authors labor sweatshops textiles
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Fiction; Needle Trades;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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