Alone in the Wild Forest

New York: Farrar, Strous, & Giroux, 1979 [Orig. published in 1971]. Pictures by Margot Zemach. Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. First edition, second printing. Signed and inscribed by Singer to "The Friends of the Brandeis School" on half-title page. Publisher's red-brown cloth, Singer's initials in blind to front board, and titles in gilt to spine; in its original lavender dust jacket, designed by Cynthia Krupat, with drawing to front panel, lettered in black and brown. About fine book, with very light spotting to cloth, light offsetting to endpapers, and previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown; near unclipped dust jacket (top corner of front flap is cut but price is still present), with light rubbing to head of spine. Overall, an attractive and clean copy. In this fantastical story, an orphan boy named Joseph meets an angel in the woods, who gives him a magical amulet that grants all his wishes. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903 - 1991) was a novelist and short-story writer whose work often dealt with themes related to his complex relationship with religion. He won National Book Awards for A Day of Pleasure (1970) and A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974), and in 1978 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Illus. by Zemach, Margot.