20. [Josef in Egypt--in Yiddish] Melamed, Hirsch [Hirss Melameds]

KNAAN UN MITSROYIM: ROMAN [KNEN]. KANAANA UN EGIPTE. (xt) כנען און מצרים: ראמאן

Rige [Riga]: Yungbukh, 1930. Item #42782

1st edition. Period boards with original covers bound in. 8vo. 157 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish with Latvian “front” cover and title page at rear. Title translates as “Canaan and Egypt: A Novel.”
Wonderfully illustrated cover (bound in) featuring cartoonish drawings of Canaanites and Egyptians. Two volumes in one: 1. Yoysef in Mitsroyim and 2. Yosef der reter fun Mitsroyim.

SUBJECTS: Yiddish fiction. OCLC: 503648109. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide, including copies of an undated edition which we assume to be a later reprint.

Ex-library with usual marks. Paper brown and somewhat fragile, old dampstain to lower edge of boards, extending into margins of first and last leaves. Original bound-in covers have come loose. Good condition thus. (B) (YID-33-27-L-’ccex+).

Price: $200.00