Michael by Amos, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Fourth printing of the American edition of the celebrated Israeli author's first book. Signed and dated on the front free enpaper. Bound in green & gilt-stamped beige linen. Green staining to top edge a tad sunned. Jacket has light edge wear but is wrapped for further preservation. A lovely copy. Signed By Author.

Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Third printing. Signed by Amos Oz with brief inscription at front free endpaper. Octavo; 287pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $6.95 price intact; boards in white cloth with green and gilt lettering and design. Jacket dampstained and soiled along top and bottom edges; edgeworn with a few nicks. Boards spotted and soiled along edges; minor bumping and nudging to corners. Binding sound. Foxing and a couple faint waterspots to top edge of textblock. Interior unmarked. A Good to Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second printing of the American edition. Briefly inscribed (Shalom) and SIGNED by the author. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, vi, 287 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine grey with white and blue lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$6.95." Mild shelf wear and rubbing, concentrated on edges. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Two closed and one open tears on top edge of front dust jacket. Slight bumping to spine and corners of boards. Text block sunken. Annotation on the text until page 124. Inscribed and dated by Oz: "For Lily With Love, Amos Feb. 19, 1974. " Shelved in Case 7. 1409639. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. True First edition in English. Signed by Amos Oz and by the translator Nicholas De Lange. Book is in near fne condition with no writing , no marks. The Dj has its original price intact. light chipping at edgeand lower spine. Considered by many Oz's masterpiece. Scarce as signed. Signed by Author(s).

First English edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in a contemporary hand, "For Gania, with my best wishes and warmest shalom, Amos Oz." Bookplate, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small closed tears and wear to the spine. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange. The New York Review of Books wrote of My Michael that it is "a dazzling, very beautiful, splendidly conceived and composed book." Set in 1950s Jerusalem, it tells the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael. As the years pass and Hannahâs tempestuous fantasy life encroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him and the marriage gradually disintegrates. Gorgeously written, profoundly moving, this extraordinary novel is at once a haunting love story, and a rich reflective portrait of a place. "Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary" (New York Times Book Review). It has been adapted into a movie, in Hebrew. The Bertelsmann publishing house named it among the one hundred best novels of the 20th century.

First American edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Amos Oz on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket art by Muriel Nasser. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange. The New York Review of Books wrote of My Michael that it is "a dazzling, very beautiful, splendidly conceived and composed book." Set in 1950s Jerusalem, it tells the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael. As the years pass and Hannahâs tempestuous fantasy life encroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him and the marriage gradually disintegrates. Gorgeously written, profoundly moving, this extraordinary novel is at once a haunting love story, and a rich reflective portrait of a place. "Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary" (New York Times Book Review). It has been adapted into a movie, in Hebrew. The Bertelsmann publishing house named it among the one hundred best novels of the 20th century.