Zlateh the Goat

SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. Translated from the Yiddish by the Author and Elizabeth Shub. [NY]: Harper & Row [1966]. 8vo, xii 90pp. Beige cloth with spine stamped in gilt and pictorial label affixed to front; t.e.g. 17 tipped-in b&w plates. Light rubbing to spine, else a fine copy housed in original slipcase (minute rubbing to corners). Signed by Newbery Honor author Isaac Bashevis Singer and Caldecott Medalist Maurice Sendak.

First edition, limited issue, being one of 500 signed and numbered copies. 1967 Newbery Honor Book! A collection of stories from Poland translated from the original Yiddish. With beautiful and delicate b&w illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Maurice Sendak. This was the first children’s book by Nobel Award-winning author, Isaac Bashevis Singer. Like all his books, he wrote this first in Yiddish, then translated – with the aid of Elizabeth Shub – into English for publication. Also, the first signed limited edition ever done by Sendak.