Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus and Other Stories [SIGNED]
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1976. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 129pp. [1]. Illustrated purple and white dust jacket with black lettering on the front cover, black and white lettering on the spine. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated frontispiece. Signed on the title page by the author. A collection of 8 short stories by the acclaimed Polish-born American-Jewish author, 3 of which had been previously published in magazines and newspapers. The included stories are "Naftali", "Dalfunka", "The Lantuch", "A Hanukkah Eve in Warsaw", "The Fools of Chelm and the Stupid Carp", "Lemel and Tzipa", "The Cat Who Thought he was a Dog and the Dog who Thought he was a Cat" and "Growing Up". The text throughout is accompanied by illustrations by Margot Zemach, finely printed lithographically in black.
Dust jacket with sunning to the spine, as well as some scratches, and some small closed tears and light rubbing to extremities. Binding a diagonal scratch to the back cover. Dj in good+, binding in very good, interior in near fine condition overall. g+ to near fine. Item #49100
ISBN: 0374354901
Price: $125.00