One of 250 copies SIGNED & NUMBERED, of the FIRST EDITION in a slipcase - no dust jacket as issued; SIGNED by both Wiesel and the artist, Podwal. Both the book and the slipcase are in excellent condition. The books begins, "I owe this legend to an old beggar." It came from his uncle, who got it from his maternal grandfather, who heard it from his Master, the Rebbe Ephraim, "who was said to have possessed the powers of Yehudah Loew, the celebrated Rebbe of Prague, but to have refused to use them for fear of blundering. And also because he claimed that the Lord, blessed be His name, ought to sav... View More...
