Lot of 2: Yiddish for Yankees/The Joys of Yiddish 1968 HC

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