STORIES FROM THE RABBIS. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-10 [11-14] 15-201 [202] [1] 2-10: ads, flyleaf at front, original decorated charcoal-gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and silver. First edition. A collection of stories, parables and legends (many with fantasy elements; magic rings, flying carpets; sleeping for seventy years, etc.) adapted from the Talmud and Midrash. Some of the stories appeared first in popular periodicals of the day. The author was a professor of German and Hebrew at New York University. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978), Day (1963), or Reginald (1979; 1992). Wright (III) 2891. A bright, nearly fine copy. (#117008).

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