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Stories Translated from German to Hebrew – Jerusalem, 1875 – Frumkin's Translations of German Stories – Rare and Undocumented
Stories translated from German to Hebrew, Part I, by R. Yisrael Dov Frumkin, publisher of HaChavatzelet. Jerusalem: printed by the translator, 1875.
With original front and back printed wrapper. Date given on title page as 1876.
Contains two parts of a story (both with divisional title pages).
[1] last leaf before back wrapper (with picture of a cedar), with advertisement for HaChavatzelet and another story book translated by Frumkin.
[1], 116, [2] pages. Includes original orange printed wrapper. Leaves misordered in several places. Approx. 15 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Marginal tears and open tears to all leaves, affecting text of some leaves, repaired with paper filling (tears to front wrapper not repaired). New leather binding.
Rare book, undocumented in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book or in Sh. Halevy (a translation of stories by Frumkin is recorded by Sh. Halevy under another name and with a different number of pages, relying on another source, and may be referring to the present book despite the differences).
The NLI catalogue contains an incomplete copy, with only 52 pages.
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