Item Details:
- Title: Yiddish For Yankees or “Funny, You Don’t Look Gentile”
- Author: Martin Marcus
- Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company
- Copyright: 1968
- Edition: Third Printing
Item Details:
- Title: The Joys of Yiddish
- Author: Leo Rosten
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Copyright: 1968
- Edition: Third Printing
Condition:
- Books are in acceptable to good condition
- Joys of Yiddish has a dust jacket with some damage: closed tears, open tears, rubbing, sunning, creasing, and foxing
- Covers have varying degree of damage
- Joys has minimal damage: soiling and shelf-wear
- Yiddish for Yankees has some damage: rubbing, sunning, soiling, staining, and shelf-wear
- Yankees is bowed
- Both text blocks have foxing and soiling
- Joys has a colored top text block that has discolored due to time
- Yankees front free-endpaper has colored pencil script, and has foxing on front and back pastedowns and free-ends
- Pages in both books have occasional foxing
- Pages are otherwise bright, clean, intact, and legible
- Bindings are strong
