[Rarebooks] Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Crown of Feathers: 3 Signed Items

[Allington Books]

*Offered only today at a substantially reduced price (payment due at
purchase):*

Priced at $2,250.  Available to the List for $1,000.

*Singer, Isaac Bashevis*. *A Crown of Feathers* [Signed: Book, Proof, and
Award Speech. Each Signed, Two Association Copies, Two Advance Copies]. New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. First edition. *A Near Fine copy of
the first edition, first printing, in a Very Good + dust jacket, SIGNED;
TOGETHER WITH the scarce UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOF, SIGNED; TOGETHER WITH
Singer's NATIONAL BOOK AWARD SPEECH, SIGNED; three signed items related to,
Nobel Prize-Winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's National Book
Award-Winning collection of stories "A Crown of Feathers". *The first
edition, first printing of the book is in Near Fine condition (spine ends
gently and lightly pushed, light surface rubbing at spine ends, top edge of
page block foxed, a few tiny spots of foxing to base and front edge of page
block, minor shelf wear and some minor marking to base of spine and board
bottoms), in a Very Good + dust jacket (minor edge wear, minor soiling to
rear panel, age toning at flap edges, remnants of price sticker to front
flap), and is INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER TO FELLOW AUTHOR AND FRIEND DAVID MCCULLOUGH.
(McCullough twice won the Pulitzer prize -- for "Truman" in 1992 and for
John Adams in 2001.)  This is a PUBLISHER'S ADVANCE REVIEW COPY of the
Book, with the Publisher's review slip loosely laid in. The UNCORRECTED
PAGE PROOF in the Publisher's original blue wrappers is in Fine condition
(with a small spot on the rear wrapper), is housed in a custom box, and is
INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY SINGER on the front free endpaper to noted New York
bookseller Burt Britten (a/k/a "Burt Britton", co-founder of Madison
Avenue's "Books and Company" who also helped run The Strand bookstore): "To
Burt and Kozby / Isaac B. Singer"; A Fine Association copy. The NATIONAL
BOOK AWARD SPEECH delivered by Singer in 1975 is in Fine condition, is
housed in a custom box, and is SIGNED BY ISAAC SINGER on the front page.
(We presume this to be a contemporary copy of the speech and not the sheets
from which Singer actually read the speech.) ALL THREE OF THE ITEMS OFFERED
TOGETHER HERE ARE RARE. Signed copies of the book's first printing are
quite scarce. Advance review copies of the book are scarce. Association
copies are rare. In this copy we have all 3 features combined and signed
Association Review Copies, as offered here, are Rare indeed. The
Uncorrected Proof of this important Singer book are quite scarce, and
signed copies of the Uncorrected Proof are Rare. Finally, in our
experience, signed copies of Singer's National Book Award Acceptance Speech
are Rare as well. A remarkable collection of three items related to one of
Singer's important National Book Award-Winning book, two of which are
Association Copies, two of which are Advance Copies, and ALL THREE OF WHICH
ARE SIGNED BY ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER. RARE. Fine in very good + dust-jacket.
Various. (#00002913)        $2,250.00
*Available to the List for $1,000.  Payment due at purchase.*


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