THE BOOK OF FIRE: STORIES ... Translated from the Yiddish by Joseph Leftwich

New York, London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1960. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A hefty resource for studying this seminal nineteenth-century Yiddish author, collecting fifty-four of his stories, plus a forty-four page introduction. Some of the stories deal with traditional Jewish supernatural motifs, including stories of the feats of the legendary eighteenth-century rabbi, the Baal Shem Tov. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with closed tear at lower rear spine fold with old internal tape mend and tanning to rear panel. (#117780) (Inventory #: 117780)