IN THE PALE: STORIES AND LEGENDS OF THE RUSSIAN JEWS. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1897. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-367 [368: blank] [369-283: ads] [284: blank], original decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Seven stories of supernatural adventures. The author notes in his preface that "the tellers of the tales current in Russian Jewry are students of the Talmud. ... in point of inventiveness they can vie with the Arabian Nights' Entertainments ..." Day, The Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature, p. 45. Reginald 07693. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, endpapers foxed, some mild foxing to text block early and late, inner front hinge repaired, a very good copy. (#116996).
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