Satan in Goray - by Isaac Bashevis Singer (A portfolio of 10 etchings)

 

Ira Moskowitz

  1912 - 2001 (biography)

1981  

etching 

11-3/8 L x 9-1/8 W x 1-1/16 D"; images: various 

each image signed, lower right; artist author signatures on colophon page 

from first English edition: 475 published; from the second run, 51 - 125 

 

 

Etchings: Arches wove; text: cream Linweave laid w/ watermark 

published 

Sweetwater Editions, NY 

17675 

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Includes 10 original etchings and various reproduces drawings; half moroccan leather, half red cloth; gilt titles and decorative stamp. Satan in Goray (Goraj) was written by Singer in a series of short installments published in the literary magazine, Globus, which he founded. It tells of the events of the catastrohpic uprising of the cosacks against the Jews in 1648.