2 Isaac Bashevis Singer first editions are documented on this shelf, from Satan in Goray (1935) to The Family Moskat (1950) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Isaac Bashevis Singer title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Satan in Goray — 1935 · Yiddish PEN Club, WarsawDer sotn in Goray was serialized in the Warsaw Yiddish literary magazine Globus between January and September 1933, then issued in book form at Warsaw in 1935 under the imprint of the Yiddish PEN Club — Singer's first book. There is no formal points census for the Warsaw printing; the 1935 Warsaw title page and PEN Club imprint are themselves the identifier, and surviving copies are very scarce given the…. The Yiddish Warsaw 1935 PEN Club edition is the true first in any language. For English, the US precedes the UK: Noonday Press, New York, 1955 comes ahead of the first UK edition, Peter Owen, London, 1958 (the source of the later Corgi paperback). Important correction for collectors: Satan in Goray is Singer's first book but not his first book in English — The Family Moskat (Knopf, 1950) preceded it, so 'first…. First-thus traps rather than book clubs dominate here. The New York 1943 Yiddish reissue reprints the novel together with four added stories under the expanded title 'Der sotn in Goray: a mayse fun fartsaytns un andere dertseylungen' — an expanded reissue, not the first. Later English Farrar, Straus and Noonday/FSG issues are reprints; one ABAA dealer records a 1958 Farrar, Straus hardback that is an apparent….
The Family Moskat — 1950 · Alfred A. KnopfFirst edition in English published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1950 — Singer's first book to appear in English; 611 pp, translated by A. H. Gross (completed after his death by Nancy Gross, with Maurice Samuel and others), dust jacket designed by George Salter. First printings carry Knopf's stated 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Borzoi device (no number line); priced jacket (identification only).…. Original-language precedence: the text first appeared as a Yiddish serialization ('Di Familye Mushkat') in the New York daily Forverts, 1945-48, and in a two-volume Yiddish book edition (Morris S. Sklarsky, New York) in 1950. The Knopf English translation (New York, 1950) is the first edition in English and the first book to bear Singer's name in English; priority within 1950 between the Yiddish book and the…. Later reissues (e.g., the Farrar, Straus / Noonday reprints) reset the text and are not the first; the Knopf 1950 with stated 'First Edition' and the George Salter jacket is required for the English first.

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