An American Type

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010. First edition. Octavo in greyish tan cloth (black spine) in greyish tan pictorial dust jacket; illus.; 283 p., 25 cm. Fine copy in fine dust jacket with faintest signs of use to jacket. Boards are clean; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; nearly like new. in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780393077759

Abstract: "Set in the dire year of 1938, Ira Stigman journeys to the famed artists' colony Yaddo, where he meets a blond, aristocratic pianist whose "calm, Anglo-Saxon radiance" engages him. The conflict with his ghetto Jewish roots forces Ira to set out on an illusionary quest for the promise of the American West."