Lot 122
"Sepher Hajaschar" - Handwritten Dedication by S.Y. Agnon
Sepher Hajaschar, Das Heldenbuch Berlin: Benjamin Harz, 1923. Hebrew, with an additional title page in German. Illustrations (woodcuts) by Leo Michelson.
On the front endpaper is a Hebrew dedication in the hand of S.Y. Agnon from 1937 (?): "Lebachur yashar / Shmuel shmo / Sefer haYashar / likrot bo / leyom she'hitchil / tfillin lehaniach / she'yigdal be'torah / ad bo ha'mashiach" ["For an honest boy / called Shmuel / Sefer haYashar / to read in / from the day he began / wearing tefillin / may he grow in Torah learning / until the coming of the Messiah"].
XI, [1], 306, [2] pp, 19.5 cm. Good condition. Foxing. Fine binding with gilt decorations (slight damage to margins of binding and to spine).
