Shadows on the Hudson

First edition. Large 8vo. Pp. [viii], 548. Quarter-bound black cloth over mustard yellow paperboards, lettered in gilt to spine; author's initials stamped in black to front cover. Dustwrapper design by Michael Ian Kaye (priced $28.00 to front flap). Translated from the Yiddish by Joseph Sherman. First book publication – published posthumously – of the novel originally serialized in The Forward, (1957–58), under its Yiddish title Shotns baym Hodson.

Winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature. Explores the intertwined lives of a group of prosperous Jewish refugees during the 1940s, as they reside in New York, vacation in Miami, leave husbands, and regain wives. "A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer's masterpiece." –Richard Bernstein, The New York Times