LUSKA, SIDNEY HENRY HARLAND (8 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 253 pages; bright and unmarked. The boards have a loss of color in places, especially on the spine and back. Still a solid GOOD.

Hardcover. Etat : Poor. possible 1st ed. Dark blue cloth covers with title in gold lettering on spine. The book is in poor condition - The spine is cocked and the covers are soiled and stained. The page edges are also stained as are many of the pages. It appears to be publisher's cloth with just the book's title stamped in gold on the spine. There is no lettering or decorations on the front cover. The endpages are stained and foxed and a couple of the page gatherings are beginning to loosen. Despite the stated flaws, it is still a decent reading copy. ; The publishing date on the copyright page is 1887, with no additional printings noted, indicating that this is probably a first edition. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 320 pages; "Sidney Luska" was the pen name for Henry Harland, a non-Jewish novelist writing about Jewish immigrant life in America. He felt that he would sell more books to Jewish readers if they thought that the author was Jewish. "The Yoke of the Thorah" was the third and last novel written by Harland under the psuedonym of "Sidney Luska".

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Original publisher's green cloth binding. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4." 292 pages, complete. Several pages of advertisements for other books in the back. Pages and covers are very clean. A fine copy. Henry Harland (1861-1905) was an American novelist known for his sensational novels. A novel that follows the story of Susanna, Countess of Sampaolo, a small island off the coast of Italy. Susanna believes the true Count of Sampaolo is in England and her adventures begins.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. No Additional Printings Listed. NOT an ex library book. Dark blue cloth covered book with print in gold on spine and cover. Prior owner note and 1887 date on half title page. 320 clean interior pages plus publisher ads.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair.

Early American Edition. Original green cloth. Uncommon Bleiler listed novel of a Jewish Musician. Harland would become the editor of the Yellow Book. Very Good, cloth with blotches of surface wear.

Hardcover. Etat : g to g+. First edition. 12mo. [6], 320, [4]pp. Original gilt-stamped and lettered blue cloth. Decorative endpapers. Writing as a Jewish immigrant under the pen name "Sidney Luska," Henry Harland (1861-1905) published the first of his series of novels about Jewish immigrant life in 1885 with "As It Was Written." It would be followed by "Mrs. Peixada" (1886), "The Yoke of the Thorah" (1887), and "My Uncle Florimond" (1888). The pseudonym was basically a marketing tactic: if he put "a Jewish name on the title page," Harland remarked in a letter to his godfather, "the sale of the book would be vastly increased. I believe lots of Jews would buy it for that reason, if for no other." And it worked! Before long, Harland became the best-selling non-Jewish Jewish writer! Binding rubbed along edges, with head of spine partly chipped. Remnant of previous owner's Ex-libris on inside of front board. Ex-library bookplate on front free endpaper (Temple Adath Yeshurun - Syracuse, New York). Previous owner's inscription dated 1887 on half-title. Library pocket at rear. Rear hinge slightly starting. Binding in overall fair to good-, interior in good+ to very good condition.

Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-253 [254-256: blank], original pictorial brown cloth, front panel stamped in black and silver, spine panel stamped in silver and gold, white endpapers with floral pattern printed in light green. First edition. The author's first novel, a lurid thriller in which a cursed New York musician kills his fiancée. "A fairly well written short novel of the supernatural with lots of insights into Jewish culture. Ernest Neuman, the narrator, learns by way of letter written to him by his father who died shortly after his birth, that he comes from a family whose sons are cursed to always be betrayed by their wives if they choose to ever marry. His father married and his wife had an affair with his closest friend, Nicholas Patzuoul. Neuman, who believes himself to be innocent of the murder of his fiancée Veronika, discovers that he has been possessed by his father's spirit in order to murder Nicholas or his surviving next of kin, which turns out to be Veronika. Neuman writes his confession, and then commits suicide" (Boyd White). According to Historian Harold Brackman "Sidney Luska was the ethnic pseudonym of native-born Protestant Henry Harland, who wrote romances of German-Jewish life in America. Born in Brooklyn, the son of a successful New York lawyer, Harland was educated at the City College of New York and Harvard Divinity School. He had to hold down a tedious day job while writing fiction at night. He believed that writers who were 'old stock' Americans like himself were being ignored in favor of authors of 'ethnic fiction.' His solution: the 'Sidney Luska' appellation, which he used in fiction with melodramatic Jewish characters and plots . His first novel, AS IT WAS WRITTEN A JEWISH MUSICIAN'S STORY (1885), sold 50,000 copies. According to historian Louise Mayo, 'It is fair to say that 'Sidney Luska' created the Jewish American novel and novelist.' To gather material, Harlan joined Felix Adler's Ethical Culture Society. He wrote that 'for the last six years I have circulated almost exclusively among the Jews, and have thus become all but a Jew myself.' AS IT WAS WRITTEN was well-received by Jewish reviewers and readers, but his second novel, THE YOKE OF THE THORAH (1887), was not . After 1890, Harland buried 'Sidney Luska.' He began writing under his real name, expatriated to England, and converted to Catholicism. He also became editor of THE YELLOW BOOK . Though forgotten, Harland paved the way for journalists like Hutchins Hapgood, whose THE SPIRIT OF THE GHETTO (1902) admirably pictured the Jewish writers and artists who frequented the Lower East Side's Bohemian cafes. Not until Abraham Cahan's THE RISE OF DAVID LEVINSKY (1917) were there serious novels written by Jews about Jews." Bleiler (1978), p. 127. Reginald 09332. Wright (III) 2460. Spine lean, cloth worn at spine ends and corners, a very good copy. (#167343).