The Chosen by Chaim Potok [FIRST EDITION] 1967 • 4th Printing • Simon & Schuster

The Chosen by Chaim Potok  FIRST EDITION [1967] ALFRED A. KNOPF Fourth Printing / 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. Dust jacket is in beautiful shape; some creasing near top of spine and a price-clipped front panel.  Dust jacket now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. Book itself is near mint and reads like new.  Beautiful copy! Finalist for the 1968 National Book Award.   Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the twentieth century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, but they use honesty with each other as a shield and it proves an impenetrable protection.