RARE FIRST EDITION of a novel set in Subcarpathian Hasidic communities and filled with ethnographic details by Dezso Schon (1906-2000), a Hungarian and later Israeli journalist and writer, recipient of Herzl Prize. 200x145mm. 448 pages. Softcover. Cover dirty, slightly stained/age-stained and coming loose. Cover corners wrinkled. Cover and spine yellowing. Spine and spine hinges worn/wrinkled. Spine edges tattered/peeling. Pencil underlining on few pages. First fourteen pages partly detached from binding. Page 397/398 fore edge tattered - NO damage to text. Some pages coming loose from binding. Text block edges slightly worn. Pages yellowing and rough-cut as published. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare first edition of a novel about an exotic Jewish community is in good reading condition.