Arabesques. Translated from the Hebrew by Vivian Eden.

New York: Harper & Row, [1988].

Price: $150.00


About the item

First American edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth backed boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Provenance: from the Library of Robert Silvers.

Item #317802

Inscribed by the author on the half title: “To Bob — And thanks for the utterly smooth stones. Anton Shammas NYC April 1988”
Shammas, an Israeli Palestinian whose novel was published in Hebrew in 1986, wrote several essays for the New York Review of Books in the late 1980s.